The number of inhabited houses in England and Wales in 1891 was 5,451,497; uninhabited, 372,184; building, 38,387; against 4,831,519 inhabited; 386,676 uninhabited; and 46,414 building in 1881.

Assuming that the population of urban sanitary districts is urban, and the population outside such districts rural, the following table shows, according to the figures of the preliminary census report, the distribution of the urban and rural population of England and Wales in 1891, and their percentage of increase during the decennium 1881-1891 :

From these figures it appears that 22 per cent. of the population of England and Wales live in six towns of upwards of 250,000 inhabitants; 31.6 per cent. (in 1881, 29 6 per cent.) in 24 (in 1881, 20) towns of over 100,000 inhabitants; 406 per cent. in 62 towns of over 50,000 inhabitants; 53 2 per cent. in 182 towns of over 20,000 inhabitants; and 17,826,347, or 615 per cent. in 358 towns of over 10,000 inhabitants. In 1881, 14,626, 131, or 56 3 per cent. of the whole population, lived in 303 towns of over 10,000 inhabitants.

In 1891, there were in England and Wales 62 towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The following is a list of them with their population in 1881 and 1891, and the increase per cent. during the decennial period. For 33 towns the estimated population in June, 1893, is given as stated in the Registrar-General's Report :

1 The areas of these towns were extended in the decennium 1881-91, but in every case the

population in 1881 relates to the town as constituted in 1891.

c 2

More than one-fourth of the total urban population, and nearly oneseventh of the total population of England and Wales are concentrated in the metropolis. The limits of the metropolis were defined by the RegistrarGeneral, in the census returns of 1891, as consisting of an Inner Ring' and an 'Outer Ring,' the former subdivided into a 'Central Area' and 'Rest of Inner Ring.' The following table gives the results of the censuses in 1881 and 1891

The night population of the City of London in 1891 was 37,694 (50,652 in 1881); the day population in 1891 was 301,384; in 1881 it was 261,061. The following is the division of the population aged 10 years and upwards in England and Wales according to occupation in 1891 :

Scotland has an area of 29,785 square miles, including its islands, 186 in number, with a population (including military in barracks and seamen on board vessels in the harbours), according to the census of 1891, of 4,025,647 souls, giving 135 inhabitants to the square mile.

The following table exhibits the numbers of the population of Scotland at the dates of the several censuses, together with the density per square mile :

The country is divided into 33 civil counties, grouped under eight geographical divisions. The following table gives the results of the census, excluding the military in barracks and the seamen on board vessels in the harbours, on April 5, 1891 :

The number of inhabited houses in Scotland in 1891 was 817,568; uninhabited, 51,460; building, 5,618.

The population in 1891 was distributed as follows among the larger towns, according to parliamentary or police burghs:

According to registration districts, the population of the principal towns of Scotland was as follows at the Census of 1891 and in the middle of 1893, as estimated in the Registrar General's Report :

At the Census of 1891 the population of Glasgow, parliamentary and suburban, was 658,198, and the increase (1881-1891) 13'9 per cent.

The total population of these nine towns represented nearly two-fifths of the population of Scotland. In 1881 the total town population was 2,306,852; in