The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-13
CENSUS SCHEDULES
ALL DISTRIBUTED
Question of Abode" Is Settled
by Ruling From WASH
ington, D. G.
Final Instructions Will Be Given
Inspectors by Supervisor
Baldwin Tonight

Census Supervisor George B. Baldwin
is meeting with some difficulty in de-
termining the regular abode of people.
In order to settle the matter with those
inquiring he secured from Washing
ton, D. c., report covering the mat
ter. The census law provides, accord
ing to the department of commerce and
labor, that all persons shall be emu
merated at their usual place of abode"
on April Is. This means the place
where they may be said to live or be-
long or the place which is their home.
The department holds that the place of
abode is not the place where a person
works or eats, but where they regu-
larly sleep.
The enumerators have been cautioned
by Supervisor Baldwin that where a
person happens to sleep at the time of
the enumeration may not be the place
where they regularly sleep.
RULES FOR ENUMERAToRS
There will be a number of persons
having their usual places of abode in
enumeration districts who viii be abb
sent April Is. These are to be in
cluded and enumerated after the facts
regarding them have been obtained
from their families. For instance if a
member of any family in an enumera-
ton district is temporarily away from
home on a visit or on business, or
travelling Tor pleasure, or attending
school or college, or sick in a hospital.
such absent person is to be enumerated
and included with the other members
of the family. But a son or daughter
regularly living in another locality
should not be counted by the family at
home.
Servants, laborers or other EMPLOYEES
who live with the family and sleep in
the same house or on the premises are
to be enumerated with the family.
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
enumerated elsewhere. The canvassers
should not. therefore, unless it is prac-
tically certain that they will not be
enumerated anywhere else, enumerate
or include with the members of a fam
lily they are enumerating 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 board
ing with a 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 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
family, but who has since become a
permanent 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.
DISTRIBUTION CLOSES
The distribution of advance schedules
practically closed last night. There
are few outlying districts and many
persons living on boats in the south
end of the bay who will not receive
their schedules until tonight. The
work has also been retarded a little in
two districts by sickness but in both
cases the places were filed from the
reserve list of enumerators.
All of the inspectors are to meet
Supervisor Baldwin at his headquar-
tiers in the Chronicle building at Z
o'clock tonight to receive final instruc-
tions before the schedules will be col
lected by the enumerators April Is.