The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-02-23
WHO ARE TO BE ENUMERATED.
lhe Census Bureaus Instructions TO
EnumeratOrs on This Point.

Washington, Feb. 1S.-The exnlicit
ana lengthy printed instructions to
the census enumerators, which have
been prepared by the United States
Census Bureau, give clear ida of the
character Of the answers expected
from the people of the United States
with regard to the questions in the
population schedule to be carried i'm
The Decennial Census ApriI Is next
All answers are to have reference
solely to the Census Day." which is
april 15. Persons living on the day.
~numerators call, are to be counted,
out who died after it and before the
ehumerators call, are to be counted.
out persons born after April Is are
not TO be included in the count. Per-
sons who were single on April Is are
10 De reported as single, even though
thty have married subsequently and
peiore the canvasser has called. This
10 true, similarly of persons who be-
came widowed or divorced after
April Is.
The census law provides that all
persons snail be enumerated at their
usual place of abode" on April Is.
This means the place where they NAV
be said to live or belong or the place
which is their home. AS a ruIa the
usual place OF abode 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 time of the enumeration
may not be the place where he reg.
ularly sleeps
There will be a number of persons
having their usual places of abode in
e--umerator districts who will be
absent April Is. These are to be includ-
ed and enumerated after the facts re-
garding them have been obtained from
their families, relatives, acquaintances
or other persons able to give the in
formation. For instance, if a MEM
Der of any family 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 a hospi- :
tai, such absent person is to be enum-
Grated and included 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, laborers, or other en- =
ployees, who live with the family.
and sleep in the same house or on the
premises, should be enumerated with j
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 enumerat-
ion who do not have their usual
places Of abode there. These are not
to be enumerated. 1t must be assum-
ed that they will be enumerated else
where. The canvasser should not.
therefore unless it is practically GER
tain that they will not be enumerat-
ed anywhere else, enumerate or include
with the membrs of a family 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
boarding with family in order to at
tend some school, college, or other
educational institution in the locality
but not regarding the place as their
home;
Persons who take their meals with
family but lodge or sleep elsewhere;
persons employed by family and
working in the house or on the premi-
ses, 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, horne for the aged, reforma-
tory, prison of any other institution
in which the inmates may remain for
long periods Of time.