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PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933' [3r] (11/28)
The record is made up of 1 file (11 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1934-4 Feb 1942. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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.. My Lord,
I have the honour to triform you that a census of the
population of Tehran and its suburbs was taken on the 1st -arch
1940. This is the first tine that a census, conducted in
anything like a scientific manner (i* e. a counting of heads
within one single day}, has ever been taken in this country,
with the exception of an experimental census, done last year in
the town of Kfiuhan, as a prellainary to the ooapX.tion Of plans
for that of Tehran.
2. Questionnaire forme were delivered by the police to
householders a nuaiber of days before the date of the census.
These foras had in general to be coopleted before the census,
and returned to the authorities, who made a house to house visit
on the actual day of the counting, and compared the completed
forms with the actual facts. Each resident was required to
remain between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on *arch 1st
within the bounds of the house from which he had submitted a
form, unless a special paae (for doctors, midwives etc.) had
been obtained beforehand. All shops and businesses, including
the dislocation was not very greatly felt.
The first figure officially announced in the Ministry
those
bay*
oriental population is well
well accustomed to fending tor its®li,
of Justice Onzette for the
6th March wae 531,246. This was
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Halit ax,
k.o., a.c. i.i.» o.c.i.s..
etc. , etc.• etc.,
FORSIOft OFFICE#
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The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments on the figures and tables published by the Tehran Municipality in respect of the Tehran population census of 1933. This is followed by two dispatches written in April 1940 and January 1942 by Reader William Bullard, the British Minister at Tehran. He describes the conduct of the population census of Tehran taken on 1 March 1940, reporting on some of the published census results, as well as press commentary in Persian newspapers.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (11 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/106
- Title
- PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, 1r:11v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence