This may be of interest to you. Just looking at the workhouse records on the 1841 census where my gr.gr. grandmother was an inmate. There are 50 persons on the page. 28 of them are children, and all but 2 are recorded as either 5 or 10 years old.
Maybe the enumerator couldn't get out of the habit!
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