Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-16
WORK OF THE CENSUS
The Annual Report of the Commissioner to
the Secretary.
The Census Practically Completed
Cost of the Dcccnnial Enumeration.

Carroll d. Wright. commissioner of labor,
In charge Of the eleventh census, has made
to the Secretary Of the Interior a report of
the operations Of the census office for the
fiscal year ending June 3d. 1894. which states
that the total disbursements on account of
the eleventh census. to and including the
date named. amount to SIC, 365. 676.S1. This
sum has been expended under different ap-
preparations as follows: Expenses eleventh
census.$ s., ATS, 1401 IL; farms, homes and mort
cages. 81. 2s7 .6s: printing. engraving and
binding. $6O3, 455.Ol.
The organization Of the census office June
30. 1884, was as follows: Commissioners
Cffice-Chief clerks branch II; special
classes section. 10; geographical section. IL;
proofreading section. 10: social statistics
section. 4; total. liz. LIST division. popula-
ton. 16l; I'd division. farms. homes and
mortgages. 2sS; Sd division, manufactures,
IL; 4th division revision and results IS; 9th
division. printing and stationery. 10; 9th d.
vision. vital statistics. -; total &C., Special
agents. II: total, GO.
OF the above number of special agents,
seven are not now under pay. The total
force therefore receiving compensation was
on the 3Oth of June last. 672. This number
VIII De reduced during the present month
TO such an extent that am Of the opinion
the census work can be completed ready for
the printer under the present appropriation
Ihere will be necessity for small appro-
priations ut the opening of Congress in De-
cember for printing and binding final results
ana Tor continuing force of proof-readers
ana revisers. These necessary appropria-
tions however. will be small
Condition of the Work.
The status of census reports June 30, 1894,
with estimated and actual number of print
ed pages. Is given lag follows:
The total number of estimated and actual
printed pages comprehended in the twenty
five volumes is 22,29O, Of which the copy
sufficient to make 1D 44O printed pages has
been prepared, leaving the copy sufficient to
make ESQ printed pages still to be pre-
pared. All the copy for the reports has
Deen prepared except small portions each of
part or the report On population, OF the re-
port on vital statistics and of the report on
farms and homes. The copy for the 1850
printed pages ESTIMATED yet to be finished
rs. OF course. inSvafious stages OF prepara-
tion, but can be all prepared during the
r rex, few months. and under the appropria-
report Of the superintendent of census
tnere had been plated of the final reports Of
the census 8,298 pages. or. including the
r Sgaiar ana extra bulletins and the COM
last there had been plated 1887 pages
Abstract of the Census.
'In accordance with the act approved
April Il, 1894 an abstract of the eleventh
census has been prepared and is now really
for distribution. thus coming within The
date fixed by the Congress. This abstract
contains, OF course, the results orly 50 far
as reached. None Of the totals relating to
vital statistics have been incorporated in it.
because they cannot be made comprehensive
enough for the plan contemplated by the
Congress; nor are the occupations Of the
people included, because the classification
Of occupations has not yet been completed
BY the act of Congress approved February
%. 1888. being An act to provide for the
publication Of the eleventh census a dig .st
Of the census is called for. The digest con-
templated 10 practically the abstract now
printed. But the act just referred to pro-
vides for digest not to exceed 200 pages
The act approved April q. 1894. provides
for an abstract not to sexecH1N 80 uages