The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-08-28


The blanks for use in the Census
Bureau are finished and Superinten-
dent Atkinson is busily engaged in
completing the details of the work pre-
paratory to placing the blanks in the
hands of the enumerators.
In getting up the blanks Mr.. Atkin-
son has had as guides papers from diff
ferent governments where the census
has been taken within recent years
and the result is in some respects
combination of the best points in them /;
original ideas have been introduced
and the whole makes the blanks the
most complete and embodying all the
minute detail, but with less complica-
ton than the average.
One of the blanks is commission
to the enumerator which he may pre-
sent wherever his authority to ask for
information is questioned. This is
signed by the General Superintendent
and the District Superintendent. An
other is return of all dwellings and
inhabited buildings of all kinds in each
subdivision. This will show the num-
| Der of buildings used as quarters for
| plantation laborers, jails, hospitals,
fhotels and boarding houses, lodging
! houses, boarding schools, private resi-
dences and churches. 1t will also show
] the character of the material from
which the buildings are constructed.
| This blank is filled by the enumerator
from the data collected by him when
he visits the places.
Perhaps the most important blank is
the one which will be left at the resi-
dence of every householder on the 9th
of September, on which day the census
will be taken. This is large paper
with an extremely official appearance,
having on the outside the seal of the
Republic and blank spaces showing the
/ island, district, street and number of
the dwelling.
At the bottom of the first page are
j the directions to the person who is to
fill up the blank The two inside pages
consist of a number of squares show
ing the age, sex, married or single, wi
dow or widower, divorced, nationality
whether Hawaiian, part Hawaiian OF
foreign, and Hawaiian born both pa
, rents are foreigners. In order TO as
certain the government to which part
Hawaiians may hold allegiance the
nationality of the father as asked or il
the father is naturalized, of what coun'
try and also the business or occupation
To the right of these spaces will show
: of the wife how many children she ha:
: living, registered voters, read anC
: write English or Hawaiian, or langu
r age other than either of those men
XVhnfhar nhi1dror of tho family
} attend either government or indepen
: dent schools. Then there are spaces
5 for religion and ownership of real es
t tate, cattle, horses, pigs and goats.
On the back of the blank is mode
showing just how the blank shall b,
filed, and the chief point of difference
E is in the fact that the writing of We
or no to any of the questions is aVoidet
. and q mere stroke of the pen is used
The occupier of the dwelling has N
writing to do except in filling in spac
4 provided ifor nationality. In nearl.
all the models Mr. Atkinson has tn
4 sex of persons was marked by an initia
letter, but in those to be used her
separate columns are provided SO tina
i within a day or two after the enumer
: ators hand in their returns, that is
d after the last return comes in from tn
e other islands these columns may b
added and the population and sex o
: the inhabitants may be aseertained
: This is an original idea of Mr.. Akin
L sons and will facilitate matters YER
: much.
There will be 220 enumerators an
; % district superintendent and each o
L these will be provided with a book i
: which the boundaries of the sub-dis
T trict will be laid down. Entries of ever
schedule of the householders will b
: made and the figures in each column
added and summary made at the en-
G OF the book At the completion Of IN
q census the total of male and female in
habitants and number of dwellings wi
: be on one line. To assist the enumeI
u ator in keeping within the exact bound
: of his division he will be provided wit
: small pocket map.
5 An effort will be made to obtain tn
acreage of cane, both plant and rattooI