Making a database of statistical appendices to Annual Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners and those of the Poor Law Board and the analysis of the database.

第一年的目标是建立统计表数据库系统。然而，当我们使OCR软件正确识别历史统计表中显示的英式图形时，出现了意想不到的困难。通过OCR软件的学习功能提高识别精度，在一定程度上克服了这些困难。可以说，系统构建完成了，构建系统的试运行和微调取得了成功。第二年，我们着重于提高数据库的制作速度。尝试了预先制作格式并放弃使用OCR读取的数字数据的策略，使数据库的制作速度提高到两倍以上。然而，对于OCR软件来说，英式数字很难处理，校正是必不可少的。直到第七次年度报告（1841年）才在年底完成数据库的制作。从去年的进展来看，我们决定只完成将济贫法专员的年报纳入数据库。数据输入的方法是前一年制定的。当上半年结束时，我们判断有必要进一步缩小范围，并从创建数据库的对象中删除了与工会有关的所有统计表。通过多次修改政策，我们得以在年底前完成扶贫专员年报统计附录的数据库。上述数据库的性能并未超出“计算机化数据”的水平，因此我们将在未来将其修改为通用型系统，具有较高的便利性。

The target at the first year was construction of the system of making a database of statistical tables. However, there were unexpected difficulties when we made the OCR software correctly recognize the British style figures shown in historical statistical tables. Such difficulties were overcome to some degree by the improvement of the recognition accuracy through the learning function of the OCR software. It can be said that the system was constructed, and the trial run and fine-tuning of the constructed system were succeeded.In the second year, we concentrated on the improvement of the speed of making of the database. The strategy of making the format beforehand and dropping the numeric data read with OCR was tried, and the speed of making of the database rose to twice or more. However British style figures were hard for the OCR software to handle, and the correction was indispensable. It was up to The Seventh Annual Report(for the year 1841) to complete making the database by the end of the year.Judging from the progress to the previous year, we decided to complete making only the Poor Law Commissioner's Annual reports into the database. Data were input by the method which was developed in the previous year. When the first half of the year ended, we judged that a further narrowing was necessary, and removed all statistical tables pertaining to the unions from the object of making the database. By changing the policy several times, we were able to complete the database of the statistical appendices of the Poor Law Commissioner's Annual reports by the end of the year. The performance of the above database is not beyond the "Computerization data" level, and therefore we will modify it into the general-purpose type system with high convenience in the future.