" Names of each Person who abode therein the preceding night" -- Insert, without distinction or omission, every living person who abode or slept in each house. Leave no blank spaces between the names, but enter each immediately after the one preceding it, so that each page may contain 25. Set down one after the other those who have the same surname, beginning with the heads of the family, and put no others between them. As long as the surname is the same do not repeat it, but write " do". Where there are more christian names than one, as "John William" or "Maria Louise", write down only the first.
When the person is a Peer or Peeress, the title may be written instead of the name. The words "Lord", "Lady", "Sir", "Rt.Hon.", "Hon." May be put before the names of those to whom they belong.
If no christian name has been given to an infant wrote " n.k." for not known, as in the Example.
If, as may happen in a lodging-house or inn, a person who slept there the night before, has gone away early and the name is not known, write " n.k." where the name should have been.
At the end of the names of each family draw a line thus / as in the Example. At the end of the names of the inmates in each house draw a double line thus //.
" Age and Sex" -- Write the age of each person opposite to the name in one of the two columns headed "Males" and "Females", according to the sex.
Write the age of every person under 15 years of age as it is stated to you. For persons aged 15 years and upwards, write the lowest of the term of 5 years within which the age is.
Thus -- for Persons aged
15 years and under 20 write 15
20 years and under 25 write 20
25 years and under 30 write 25
30 years and under 35 write 30
35 years and under 40 write 35
40 years and under 45 write 40
45 years and under 50 write 45
50 years and under 55 write 50
55 years and under 60 write 55
60 years and under 65 write 60
65 years and under 70 write 65
70 years and under 75 write 70
and so on up to the greatest ages.
If no more can be ascertained respecting the age of any person than that the person is a child or is grown up, write " under 20" or " above 20", as the case may be.
