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Cataloguing a Nation
Horwill, Herbert W. | May 18, 1918 issue

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In peace time, residents in British Isles suffer little from the importunities of the statistician and the card-indexer. Birth, marriage, death, are the incidents of an Englishman's personal career that require registration, apart from the decennial census and the annual inquisition of the income-tax collector. But the war has brought with it a series of new and exigent demands. Nowadays no one is so obscure as to evade being docketed and labeled. The novel process began, of course, with the enemy alien, who was compelled, immediately on the outbreak of hostilities, to make a declaration of his unfortunate status.

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DEATH certificates; MORTALITY -- Statistics; MARRIAGE records; WAR; CENSUS; BRITISH Isles
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