Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-25
CENSUS BUREAU WORK
COMPLETION OF THE FOUR PRIN-
CIPAL REPORTS.
Bound Volumes Showing Results Being
Shipped From the Office. at the Rate
of One Thousand Day.

The following statement was issued today
from the census bureau:
THE director of the census announces as
effective the law of March ), 1892 making
mandatory the completion of the four prin-
cipal reports-that is. population, manufac-
lures. agriculture and vital statistics.
The bound volumes showing the results
of these different Investigations are now
being shipped from the census Office at the
rate of 1890 per day. and will shortly be
in the hands of the public. The entire is
suance will consist of something over
100000 volumes. aggregatng 10,o0o.Oo0
printed pages of statistical matter. This
is undoubtedly the greatest statistical feat
ever undertaken and carried to successful
conclusion within the time allotted for the
completion of the work, involving some
thing less than twentyfour months for the
securing of the facts and the deliverance
of the results.
Method of Operation.
AT the outset of the work the country
was divided into 52,SI2 enumeration dis
tricts and 800 supervisors districts. There
were received at the census office. as a re-
suit of the field work, 100000 schedules on
population. 10000 schedules for vital statis-
ties. >. I3S524 agricultural schedules and
Co.'S 01 schedules on manufactures
There We're over 215,00,0U0 cards punch
eu LOT use IN the taDulatlnS macnlneS. ana
the number of cards that passed through
the machines was about 620,900,0Oo.
The clerical force reached its maximum
in 1900, when there We're ..!54 persons en-
gagged in the bureau in Washington. There
were employed, as special agents in the
field for the collection of statistics, 2.64S
persons. The total maximum number of
employees of the twelfth census was 5a.37;.
The total expenditures, to date, approyi-
mate S12000,O00.
There has been a series of bulletins is
sued that WILL by the time the series is
completed number about 80, involving
$3.50 pages.
In the mechanical division of the work
there have been used seyenty-four adding
ma chineS and 81 H0llerith tabu,atng ma
chimes. while the approximate number of
percentages worked was 1,6J0,000.
Contents of the Volumes.
Volumes l and II of the twelfth census
reports are devoted to population by states
and territories, by minor civil divisions,
cities, towns and villages. and by extended
details of sex, color. parentage, birth,
ages, conjugal condition, school attendance
iiiteracy, dwellings and families, and pro-
prietorship of homes.
Volume III and " are devoted to vital
statistics, presenting tables of deaths by
specified diseases. by age and SEX, color and
race, conjugal condition. birthplace of
mothers, and registration and non-registra-
ton districts, with details of deaths classi-
fled by states and territories at certain
ages by months. etc.
"Volumes V and VI are devoted to agri-
culture, presenting extended tables of farm
products and animals and statistics of
crops in detail.
volumes VII. VIII. TX and X relate to
manufactures. presenting general tables of
manufactures: manufactures by states and
territories. with details by cities. and spe-
cial reports, largely by expert special
agents of the census office. These reports
consist of extended tables relating to the
different industries, with detailed discus
sion of the tables, and brief accounts of
the origin and progress of the industry.
AS an illustration of the extent of these
volumes, it may be mentioned that they
contain almost 500 extended general tables
and nearly as many more smaller supple
mentary tables
director Merriam feels that the splen-
did RESULTS achieved by his bureau are due
toiithe intelligence. efficiency and fidelity
displayed by his various subordinates, and
ha,:desires to acknowledge the loyalty and
devotion shown by the assistant director
the chief statiStician, the geographer the
assistant geographer. the chief clerk the
appointment clerk. and the clerical force of
the office, in carrying the enormous task
Imposed upon him by Congress to such an
eminently successful termination"