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PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933' [4r] (13/28)
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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amwidea in the issao of the 38th arch to 340,0 5? t.& a result of
H a detailed examination of the census fora s’*. Ko details were
given. This is stated to he ^actual’' population of i'ehran ana
its suburbs on March 1st, "actual* being defined as exclusive of
nortaal residents who were absent on that date, and inclusive of
non-residents who were present# The only available definition
of w suburbs H is "up to eix kiloaietres frojs the city"; this
presumably means from the edge of the urban area that in fomer
cays was clearly defined by the now demolished walls, rather
than from the centime, and It would exclude the suiamer stations
collectively known as hiuran, as well ns lhahr-i- ,ey v ihaii Abdul
AzIhj).
4 # xt was stated in the press that & census taken in
1884 revealed a population of 106,482, and that subsequent
countings in 1322 and 1932 resulted in the figures 160,0 -0,
210,000 Kid 310,139 respectively. X m not In possession o:
recorus covering the first three of these occasions, hut fro»
those avaiishle for 1332 it is evident that the counting was not
done in the strict manner of a uropesn census, out was spread
over a considerable time. ’fheae earlier figures, though they
noy well represent approximate statistics of the population at
those dates, must t lerefore be taken with reserve.
0n the other hand, while making due allowance for
the evident fact that Tehran has greatly increased (at the
expense of several provincial towns) under the present regime,
I find it impossible to believe that it has increased by as much
as 230,000 in eight years (nearly 80 persons per aay;, or that
it amounts at present to over half a million souls. A great
deal of the development of the city and its environs has oeen in
^ wide streets and pretentious
the direction of eubstituting .viue s
/ house®
n
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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.
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- 1 file (11 folios)
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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'
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- 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