Rushden Echo, 5th April 1901, transcribed by Kay Collins
Taking the Census—Twenty-two enumerators, of both sexes, were at work on Monday morning in Rushden and neighbourhood, collecting the by this time familiar blue papers which the “head of the house” had to fill up. The district which is controlled by Mr. G. R. Turner, includes Rushden, Higham, Irthlingborough, Irchester, Wymington, and Podington, and nearly every place will show increases in the number of inhabitants, and in some cases they will be substantial increases. On the whole, but little difficulty was experienced by the enumerators with regard to the filling up of the papers. In some cases the hand writing was of the usual elementary school type, children filling up the papers for their “head.”
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