The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-25
READY 10 COUNT NOSES
Instructions Sent to the Enum-
orators Who Are to Take
the Fifth State
Census.
Special to the Jersey o,ty Ne,cs.

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TRENTON. April %. 1S95.-The Secre-
tary of State has sent to the County
Clerk of each county the necessary
blanks and full Instructions and a copy
of the law for all enumerators in the
county to take the census. the details of
which were published in 1.-THE Jersey
CITY News' yesterday.
THIS closes the part the Secretary of
State has to do with the work. until the
enumerators send in their returns 1t is
the duty of the County Clerks to send
the blanks and instructions to the city
and township clerks, who give them to
the enumerators.
The census is to be taken by the as
SCISSORS IN cities. towns, townships n
in boroughs and villages that have been
set off entirely from townships and erect
ed into separate distinct municipalities,
except IN cites arc towns having boards
Of assessors and in cities having a popl-
lation of 100, 1000 or over, in which cases
It will be taken by enumerators APP
pointed by the Common Council or
Board of Aldermen. Consequently, in
this city the en~umerators will be APP
pointed by Council. The law does not
clearly designate how many shall be
appointed, but seems to imply that one
shall be appointed for each ward. 1t
IS considered quite possible for a ward to
3e covered by one person n the time
gwen.
COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS.
The instructions sent out are said to
De the most complete ever sent in this
Of in other states taking a State census.
every care is taken to make Ii plain
10 the enumerators what IS wanted, and
n addition two samples oI census oiahks
filed out are attached.
The Information which they are to
obtain includes the number OF dwelling
houses visited, number OF fafni!es,
names of persons, whether native or for
1r white. male or female, and age
divided in FIVE years and under, 8 to 20
. to 60 and over 80 years. All persons
included, even If dead when the census
aker arrives at the house. On the other
land, no baby born after May 10 IS to
DWELLINGS, AND FAMILIES DE-
FINED.
A dwelling house, for the purposes of
he census. mean any building or place
er.al or structure, IN which any person
5 at the tine Ewing, whether in a room
lbove q warehouse or factory, a loft
ikirts of q settlement. equally with a
lwelling house in the usual, ordinary
ense of that term. Wholly ~un:nhabited
The word family" for the purposes
IF the census, includes persons living IN
Ter. a common. roof and at the same
able. 4 hotel. with al its inmates,
meaning of his term. A hospital, a
prison. an asylum. S equally a family
such cases there is to be put under re
marks the nam of the institution. On
the other hand, the solitary inmate of a
cabin, a loft, or a room finished off above
poses of the census. In the case, how
aver, of tenement houses and flats" as
many families are to be recorded as
FIFTY THOUSAND BLANKS RE-
QUIRED.
There will be much work for the Of
ng the returns after they are received.
rhe population IN 1890 was 1,444, 933.
Zach page of the blank is intended to
,ent oSgr t 5d.o5SS blmss. g Ta that bi theEe e will
ans twenty-one columns. The nuner
ltors are expected to foot up the col
INNS before sending in the blanks. but
md the totals added together.
The Secretary has until the meeting
f the next session of the Legislature in
york will undoubtedly be pushed as
,ap.dly as possible and completed before
hat time, IL It can be, to crafty the gem
raj curiosity as to how many residents
here are in each division of the State
and N the State at large.
THE SCHOOL CENSUS.
The school census IS also to be taken
Turing. May, the e~numerators having
from the first to the t1irty-frst to com
olete their work. The Commissioners
IF. Public Instruction have the appoint
nent of the school census takers in this
elty.. There are plenty of applicants for
the pos. tions and will be for the taking
of the State census also. For the latter
work the compensation is 81 a hundred.
For each name of a child between 5
and 10 years, the school enumerators
will receive five cents, and for each
name turned in the city, will receive SIS
towards the maintenance of the public
enumerators for the entire State were
named by the State Census Superin-
tendent, but this year the power was
vested with the Boards of Education.