Democratic messenger., 1910-03-12

ucts for the year ending Dec. 81 next
preceding the enumeration.
All questions relating to population
and the inventory of farm equipment
apply to conditions existing only on April
Is, the census day."
The census bureaus instructions to
enumerators with reference to the emu
meration of the population present
some important and interesting distinc-
lions.
Persons living on April Is, 1910. but
who died after it and before enumera-
tors call, are to be counted, but per-
sons born after April Is are not to be
included in the count. Persons who
were single on April Is are to be re-
ported as single even though they have
married subquently and before the
canvasser has called. This is true sim
ilarly of persons who become widowed
or divorced after April 10.
The census law provides that all per-
sons shall be enumerated at their "usu-
al 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 above is not the place
where person works or where he
eats, but where he regularly sleeps.
The enumerators are cautioned, how
ever, that where a man happens to
sleep at the time Of the enumeration
may not be the place where he regu-
larly sleeps.
II anyone in an enumeration district
is temporarily away from home on
visit or on business or travelling for
pleasure or attending school or college
or sick in hospital such absent per-
son is to be enumerated and included
with other members of the family.
But son or daughter regularly living
in another locality should not be count
ed 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 family.
The census bureau states that there
will be, on the other hand, certain
number of persons present and perhaps
lodging 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.
II must be assumed that they will be
enumerated elsewhere. They should
not, therefore, unless it is practically
certain that they will not be enumerat-
ed anywhere else. enumerate or in
clude with the members Of a family
they are enumerating any of the fol-
lowing classes:
Persons visiting family, transient
boarders or lodgers 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 institution in the locality,
but not regarding the place as their
home: persons who take their meals
with a family, but lodge or sleep else
where; servants, apprentices or other
persons employed by family and
working in the house or on the prem
ises. but not sleeping there, or any
person who was formerly in a family,
but has since become permanent in
mate 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.
The words dwelling house" and
family" are, for census purposes, CIV
en- much wider application than they
have in ordinary speech. A dwelling"
is defined as place in which at the
time Of the census one or more persons
regularly sleep. Itneed not be house
in the common meaning of the word.
A family" as census term, may
mean group of individuals who occupy
jointly dwelling place or part of a
dwelling place or an individual living
alone in any place of abode. All the
occupants and employees Of hotel,