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WHO ARE TO BE ENUMERATED.
The Census Bureaus Instructions to
E%numerators on This Point.

Washington, D. c., February 10, 1910.-
The explicit and lengthy printed instruc-
tions to the censu enumerators, which
have been prepared by the United States
Census Bureau, give a clear idea OF the
character of the answers expected from
the people Of the United States with re-
gard to the questions in the population
schedule to be carried in the Decennial
Census April Is next.
All answers are to have reference solely
to the Census Day." which is April 10
Persons living on that day, but who died
after it and before the enumerators call,
are to be counted, but persons born aftel
April Is are not to be included i'll the
count. Persons who were single on
April Is are to be reported as single, even
though they have married subsequently
and before the canvasser has called. Ibis
is true, similarly, OF persons who became
widowed or divorced after April Is.
The census law provides that oil persons
shall be enumerated at their usual place
OF abode" Oh April Is. This e II the
place where they may be said to live ol
belong or the place which is their home.
AS q rule, the usual place OF abode Is not
the place where q person works or where
he eats, but where he regularly sleeps.
The enunerators are cautioned, however,
that where a man happens to sleep at the
time of the enumeration may not De the
place where he regularly sleeps.
There will be a number Of persons hav-
ing their usual places OF abode In emu
meration districts who will be absent
April Is. These are to be included and
enumerated after the facts regarding
them have been obtained from their fam
lilies, relatives, acquaintance, OF other
persons able to give the information. For
instance, if a member Of any family In an
enumeration district is temporarily away
from home on q visit, or on business, or
travelling for pleasure, or attending school
or college, or sick in a hospital, such ab-
sent person Is to be enumerated and In
Guided with other members Of the family.
But a son or daughter regularly living in
another locality should not be counted
with the family at home.
Servants, labor ers, or other employees,
who live with the family, and sleep in the
same house or on the premises, Mould be
enumerated with the family.
The Census Bureau states that there
will be, on the other hand. a certain num-
Der Of persons present and perhaps lodg-
ing and sleeping in districts at the time
Of the enumeration who do not have their
usual place Of abode there. These are
not to be enumerated. 1t must be assum-
ed that they will be enumerated else
where. The ~canvassers should not,
therefore, unless it Is practically certain
that they will not be enumerated any
where else, enumerate or include with the
members Of q family they are enumer-
ating any Of the following classes:
Persons visiting a family;
Transient boarders or dodgers who have
some other usual or permanent place OF
abode;
Students or children living or boarding
with a family in order to attend some
school, college, or other educational in
stitution in the locality but not regard
ing the place as their home;
Persons who take their meals with q
family but lodge or sleep elsewhere;
Servants, apprentices, or other persons
employed by a family and working in the
house or on the premises, but not sleeping
there; or
Any person who was formerly in a fam
lily, but who has since become a perma-
nent inmate Of an asylum, almshouse,
home for the aged, ~reformatory, prison,
or any other institution in which the in
mates may remain for long periods OF
time.