HOUSES AND BUILDINGS-GREAT BRITAIN.

No. 26.-NUMBERS of NEw BuildingS ASSESSED to INCOME TAX (Schedule A) for the first time in ENGLAND and WALES, SCOTLAND and GREAT BRITAIN in each YEAR ended 5th APRIL, 1920 to 1926.

(Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Inland Revenue

Department.)

NOTE.-The year of first assessment is the year ended 5th April following the year of erection.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATE.

ELECTORS in each DIVISION of the UNITED KINGDOM at the date ELECTIONS, 1892 to 1924.

for England and Wales and from other sources.)

(c) Excluding Irish Free State.

(d) Including 2,835 electors, whose sex was not distinguished, for Queen's University, Belfast.

PUBLIC EDUCATION-ENGLAND AND WALES.

(For fuller explanation of the Statistics reference should be made to the No. 28. PUBLIC ELEMEN

(a) Prior to 1919-20 the Statistical Year ended on 31st July. In 1919-20, and subsequent years, it ended on 31st March.

PUBLIC EDUCATION-ENGLAND AND WALES.

Volumes of "Statistics of Public Education in England and Wales.")
TARY SCHOOLS.

PART I.

1. Number of Pupils on the Registers on the last day of the year, classified

Number

according to age.

YEARS.

included (a)

88,343 2,839,517 | 2,785,925

13.424
98,240
13,541
92,975
84,165 2,810,692 2,753,137
12,898 83,218 75,067 2,788,740 2,720,810
73,565 2,950,982 2,869,442
11,448 87,279
78,405 2,720,018 2,658,458 85,352 77,663 2.892,649 2,814,526
10,597 112,006 99,342 2,642,750 2,585,784 86,407 83,323 2,841,163 2,768,449
9,926 116,946 104,668 2.626,628 2,564,090 83,158 82,732 2,826,732 2,751,490
8,977
95,138 86,354 2.652,620 2,586,348 86,629 85.515 2,834,387 2,758,217

58,151

60,476 2,995,908 2,934,744

61,790

62,345 2,965,457 2,899,647

79,024

(a) The statistics relate to the last day of the school year. In 1915 a uniform school year ending 31st March was adopted for all Special Schools.

YEARS

ENDED

No. 30.-TRAINING OF TEACHERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.(a)

Number of recog
nised Students

admitted to

Training
Colleges.

31st JULY.

Men. Women.

(a) The figures relating to the Training Colleges for the Blind and for Teachers of the Deaf, respectively, and to the Certified Training Colleges for Private Students only, are not included.

(b) Part-time Teachers are counted once for each Training College in which they served. The figures do not include University Professors and Lecturers whose courses in academic subjects were attended by Training College Students. (c) Information not available.

(b) Prior to the year 1923 Part-time Teachers are counted once for each School in which they

(a) The figures given in these columns include certain men and women who at some time before entry to the Training College, had been already recognised as Certificated Teachers (not "trained ").