The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-05-02
TIE UNITED STATES CENSUS.

United States census in June have
been begun. Regarding the general
statistics relating to agriculture,
Superintendent Porter makes the
following appeal to the farmers of
the country: at is important to the
country that the returns in relation
to farm products and livestock
should be full and correct. The
enumerator, in the house-to-housc
visit he will make during the month
of June, 1890, is constantly met
with the fact that farmers keep no
books, and hence returns are not in
frequently guess.work. The census
year begins June lst next and ends
May 81, 1890. If farmers through
out the country would note this fact
and keep account Of the products
of their farms during the census
year 1t would be Of material aid in
securing reliable returns for the
Eleventh CELSIUS"
Regarding the gold and silver
mining industries Of the country, q
different plan will be adopted from
that used for the last census. For
the Eleventh Census the plan will
be to determine, by means Of the
smcltcrs, reiineries and assay offices
of the MINIS, the total quantity Of
gold and silver produced rs it first
appears in the refined form on the
market, and to trace this back from
the refining works to the producers
of base bullion, then TO the samplng
works (where the ores from different
sections are miXed), and from these
to the principal mines, so rs to show
the States, and the principal districts
of each State, from which gold and
silver came. so much tor the pro-
duct. The inquiry will also show
the usual questions in regard 10
capital, labor and materials employ
ed in the various steps to the finish.
cd product; and the special agent
will also obtain these statistics f0l
the principal minos.
The progressively greater increase
of population in the cities, rs com
pared with that of the rural districts
and the results produced by the ag
gregation and overcrowding of large
numbers of the poorest and most ig-
norant classes, including many
recent immigrants, give specia
Importance to a study of the condi-
tons as to water supply, sewerage
and drainage, character of habta
tons, etc., of the cities, taken il
connection with the statistics Of thu
diseases and deaths occurring i,
them in different localities. 1t is
therefore, intended to make care
full study upon all these points, It
obtain as full information as posi-
BILE with regard TO all the condition
affecting the life and health of tn
people in the several cities of th
United States, and to present thcs
in series of tables so constructed
as to indicate the localities wher,
the greatest injury to health ant
waste of life are occurring, and TIN
conditions of habitation, occupation
municipal sanitary condition, etc.
to which these may be supposed t
be due, rs a foundation for effort il
~ definite direction to effect i'm
provemcnt in these matters.
Among the new important fea
lures of the Eleventh Census will b
the following:
(D A special study of the Dirt
and death rates and of the princip;
causes of death in twcnty-four c
our largest cities, TO show where Til
highest and lowest death rates pr,
vail, and what the relations of thcs
are TO topography, drainage, cha
acter of habitations, ovcrcrowdinG
; poverty, and other environments.
. CD A special study of tic inil'
cncc of race upon fecundity an
mortality in the United States, il
Guiding studies Of the birth an
death rates of mulattoes as distin!
, uished from the negroes on the OF
hand and the whites on the othc
, and OF the principal European race
=, which have contributed to the popl
lation of this country.
(3) A special study of the rel
tons of occupation to death rat
j. and to particular causes of death
shown by detailed study of iigur
derived from the records of OF
largest manufacturing cities for
y period of five years, in addition
= The data of the whole country +
h the census year which will be o
:, tanned by the enumerators.
u Altogether the new census pr
y misses to be very comprehend
:. document, and will include statisti
on"Pauperism andCrime, ""Wcalt
0 Debt and Taxation" "Record
Indebtedness" "Mincral Resonrc
n of the Nation" "Fish and Fish(
V les" Transportation" "Insu
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