Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-02-24
WHO ARE TO Be ENUMERATED.
The Census Bureaus Instructions to Emu
meTatOr'S on This Point,

meTdtur'S on This Point.
The explicit and lengthy printed in
structions to the census enumerators.
which have been prepared by the Uni
& d States States Census Bureau, give
clear idea of the character of the an
swers expected from the people of the
United States with regard to the ques-
lions 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 Is. Persons living on that day,
but who died after it and before the
enumerators call, are to be counted, but
persons born after April Is are not to
be included in the count. Persons who
were single on April 10 are to be re-
ported as single, even though they have
married subsequently and before the
canvasser has called. This is true. sim
ilarly, OF persons who became widowed
or divorced after April Is.
The census law provides that all per-
sons shall be enumerated at their usual
place of abode" on April Is. This means
the place where they may be said to
live or belong or the place which is their
home. AS rule, the usual place of
abode is not the place where a person
works or where he eats. but where he
regularly sleeps. The enumerators are
cautioned, however, that where a man
happens to sleep at the time of the emu
meration may not be the place where he
regularly sleeps.
There will be a number of persons
having their usual places of abode in
enumeration districts who will be alb.
sent April Is. These are to be included
and enumerated after the facts regard
ing them have been obtained from their
families, relatives, acquaintance, or
other persons able to give the informa-
ton. 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 pleas
ure, or attending school or college. or
sick in hospital, such absent person is
to be enumerated and included with
other members of the family. But a
son or daughter regularly living in an
other locality should not be counted
with the family at home.
Servants, laborers, or other employ
ees, who live with the family, and sleep
in the same house or on the premises.
should be enumerated with the familv.
The Census Bureau states that there
will be, on the other hand, a certain
number of persons present and perhaps
lodging and sleeping in districts at the
time of the enumeration who do not
have their usual places of abode there.
These are not to be enumerated. 1t
must be assumed that they will be emu
merated elsewhere. The canvassers
should not, therefore, unless it is prac-
tically certain that they will not be emu
merated anywhere el.e, enumerate or
include with the members of a family
they are enumerating any of the follow
ing classes:
Persons visiting family;
Transient boarders or lodyers who
have some other usual or permanent
place of abode:
Students or children living or board
ing with family in order to attend
some school, college, or other educa-
tional institution in the locality but not
regarding the place as their home;
Persons who take their meals with a
family but lodge or sleep elsewhere;
Servants, apprentices, or other per-
sons employed by family and working
in the house or on the premises, but not
sleeping there; or
Any person who was formerly ia a
family, but who has since become a per-
manent inmate of an asylum, aims
house, home for the aged, reformatory,
prison, or any other institution in which
the inmates may remain for long peri.
DDS of time.