PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933'

Title:

PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933'

Date:

1934/1942

Description:

Abstract: The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments on the figures and tables published by the Tehran Municipality in respect of the Tehran population census of 1933. This is followed by two dispatches written in April 1940 and January 1942 by Reader William Bullard, the British Minister at Tehran. He describes the conduct of the population census of Tehran taken on 1 March 1940, reporting on some of the published census results, as well as press commentary in Persian newspapers.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Population censuses

Geographic region:

Teheran

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000466.0x00017d_ar
81055/vdc_100000000466.0x00017d_en
IOR/L/PS/12/106
IOR/L/PS/12/106

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