London, May 6.
Writing about the census last week. I" mentioned that four households in our village just outside London received schedules. It is now disclosed that lover 2,000 enumerators threw up their jobs in the middle and left the Registrar-General to whistle for his returns.
Of the 40,000 enumerators engaged 12,250 were drawn from the ranks of the unemployed. They had all been required to pledge themselves to carry through the work to its conclusion. Either they found the work too diffielt, or they got better employment ' during the course of it, Anyway they dropped out.
One enumerator, anonymously ed, said that the visita ing of returns in ledgers and checking their accuracy meant three weeks" hard work, for which he got £3. 18s.
The Registrar-General's reply that most enumerators intended. as usual, to do their work in spare. time, morning or evening, and that it was calculated that the work would take in the aggregate Unree full days. This was the calculation at the census of 1921, Thad proved satisfactory then, ard fon it rates of pay were Lased. Anyway, men knew before they undertook the work exactly what they wold be required to do.
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