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Census Population.
The 1951 Census statistics are in respect of the living
population enumerated as at midnight, 8th/9th April, 1951.
Definitions, etc.
Dwelling means a structurally separate dwelling and generally comprises
any room or suite of rooms intended or used for habitation, having separate
access to the street or to a common landing or staircase to which the public
has access.
Households.—The term " household " now replaces the term " family "
used in the previous census.
Private households can broadly be regarded as comprising single
persons living alone or groups of individuals voluntarily living together
under a single menage in the sense of sharing the same living room
or eating at the same table.
Rooms.—For the purpose of the census, the rooms counted are the
usual living rooms, including bedrooms and kitchens, but excluding sculleries,
kitchenettes, landings, lobbies, closets, bathrooms or any warehouse, office
or shop rooms.
Household arrangements.—The 1951 census schedule contained the
following instructions :—
Piped water supply within the house ' means water laid on either
from the mains or from a storage tank, if the tap can be reached
without leaving the shelter of the building or an attached covered
structure. It does no': include a tap in the open yard or a public
standpipe.
Cooking Stove or Range means any cooking stove, kitchen
range, or other fixed grate using gas, electricity or any other fuel,
provided there is an oven. One or more gas-rings, hot-plates or portable
electric ovens are not by themselves enough to be called a cooking
stove or range.
Kitchen Sink' means a sink inside the building, whether in a
kitchen or not, with a drain pipe leading outside the building, and
normally used for washing up, etc. It need not have water piped to
it. It does not include a wash basin designed for personal toilet.
Watercloset' here means a watercloset flushed by water, either
from a cistern or by hand, and emptying into a main sewer, septic tank
or cesspool. It does not include a chemical closet or earth closet.
' Fixed Bath ' means a bath permanently installed and connected
with a waste pipe leading outside the building. It does not matter
for this purpose whether there is water piped to at, or whether the
room where it is installed is used only as bathroom or not.