The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-04-19 00:00:00

THE CENSUS.

With reference to the recent complaints from 'several
quarters as to the impaled and unsatisfactory manner in
which toe C,113411111 was taken an enurneriter writes as
foto,. to the Dely News :—N isr that there ins little talk
ab.iut the cense.' taking, and of the negligence and viaduct
of gime of the enum• rotors, may I he allowed to state a
little of the diffienl'y I had to contend with as one of the
'mower, t ri of 1E431, and I am inclined to think hat bad
any of the mitsbiers who critlcl,e4 the conduct of some of
us had a district like the one I had, would have been
inclined to throw up the flowage. and left the registrar to
complete the einsus himself. My district was situate in •
very poor neighbourhood, where there were plenty of
courts and alley.. and in delivering the schedules I found
the greate.t difficulty in making some understand my
bosinia.. end in obtaining the information I required, and
also in finding come of the house'', atc. The time Decanted
in delivering • little over 240 'schedules Yeas 11 hours, and,
I need hardly ray at the conclu.ion, I was completely
exhausted, goiog from door to door, talking and walking I
the whole of that time, save ten minute.' rest for refresh-
ment.. So much for 'tethering Now as to fetch-
ing 'he schedules in. Never before have I explienced
anything like the trouble 1 had to complete th;e The
first row of ten hou.ea I had to fill in or alter six out of
the tin, ant in one boa.e had to search for an old Bible to
obtain the nece•eary information as to the age, Mr. I had,
of cours•, scorer' of chedules to fill in myself throughout
the log end tedious day, and the odour from some of the
I dwellings was siekening in the extreme, but which I was
compulleid to endure to obtain the necessary information.
At the clese of the day I promised faithfully that if my
life was aperad until another census-taking. my name, Ilk*
"Paidylx," woul i not be found amongst the slain. After
harmg c ffiected the %aspen, many would suppose that the
work wax done. Not so I had already filled one book,
but I bad another book about six times as large, into
which all the information contained in every schedule bad
to be copied. This I found no eery tusk, as • large num-
ber of the 'schedules were naively readable. However. I
set to work, and work I did, the time occupied being 90
hourn in completing thug hook. Now the time the whole
motter took, reckoning eight hours per day, would be six
date tour hours, and the amount to be receivei for such
work w ill be equal to • penny tier folio of 71 words, for
writing alone, irrespective of delivering or fetching in the
grherinlw—in other words, about holt the elm that would
be allowsi law stationers for merely copyit g the scow.

THREE MEN KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.
A f .tal accident a:curled on the Great South Weettrn
a tilwar. nenr Tullsmore (Ireland), on Wednesday. Three
platelayers wer riding on • truck behind • train, when
the trick ran off the metals, and the Mtge man wen,
Milt d.

THE SEAHAM COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
The Sashimi 0 'Miry inquest closed on Wedneeday. The
jury fatal that she explosion loqk ohms at New &alum
Colliery no the Bth of September last, but in what part
• I the p;t the explosion had originated they were unable
to any. As to the eyetem of drink shot., in future, the
jury thought that could safely be left in the hands of the
managers.