Census facts:
The jute king of Europe - Population
In Dundee almost half of the population are engaged in manufacturing textiles. With the industrial changes of the 20th century, the jute industry went into decline. The last mill in Dundee closed in 1998.
*From Scotland's Census 1911.
A welcome help - Health
The National Insurance Act of 1911 set up the country’s first unemployment benefit and national health insurance schemes. Not all workers benefited from this forerunner of the welfare state. Workers had to earn £160 per annum or less – and dependents and the self-employed were not included.
*The census asks about work but it doesn’t measure benefits
Are you being served? - Culture
In 1853, there were 2,053 public houses in Glasgow (one for every 170 people). The trend towards pubs becoming increasingly large and lavish places meant by 1912 the number had fallen to 1,261 pubs (one for every 622 people).
*Scotland's Census does not count public houses.
Contemporary historical facts:
14 April 1912 – the Titanic, the most luxurious ocean liner the world had ever seen, sinks on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg – killing 1,517 people.
28 June 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo. One month later, in the tense political climate, the death acted as the trigger for the outbreak of war.
1915 - Elizabeth Anderson Crighton was made the first female railway guard with The Caledonian Railway Company.
March 1918 – The 1918 flu epidemic (Spanish flu) spreads to nearly every corner of the globe, killing between 50 to 100 million people worldwide, or, a third of the population of Europe.
1919 – The Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the most prolific philanthropist the world had ever seen, dies in America aged 83.