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title: "1871 United Kingdom census"
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The United Kingdom Census 1871 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland carried out on Sunday 2 April 1871. It added the categories of "lunatic" to those recorded as infirm.
The total population of England, Wales and Scotland was recorded as 26,072,036.


== See also ==
Census in the United Kingdom
List of United Kingdom censuses


== References ==