Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-03-26
WHO ARE TO BE ENUMERATED.

The explicit and lengthy printed in
structions to the census enumerators,
which have been prepared by the Unit
ed States Census Bureau, give a clear
idea of the character of the answers ex-
| pected from the people of the United
States with regard to the questions in
the population schedule to be carried in
the Decennial Census April Is next.
All answers are to have reference sole.
ly to the "Census Day." which is April
18th. Persons living on that day, but
who died after il and before the emu
merators call, are to be counted, but
persons born after April 10Th are not to
be included in the count. Persons who
were single on April 10Th 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 10th.
The census law provides that all per-
sons shall be enumerated at their "usu-
al place of abode Oh April 18th. 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 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 10Th. These are to be in
cluded and enumerated after the facts
regarding them have been obtained from
their families, relatives, acquaintances,
or other persons able to give the infor.
nation. For instance, if member 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 hospital, such absent person is to be
enumerated and included with other
members of the family. But a son or
daughter regularly living in another To-
cality 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 fam
lily.
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
Grated anywhere else, enumerate or in
clude with the members 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 board
ing with family in or to attend some
school, college, or other educational in
stitution in the locality but not regard
ing the place as to their home;
Persons who take their meals with a
family but lodge or sleep elsewhere;
Servants, apprentices, or other persons
employed by 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 per-
manent inmate of an asy lum, almshouse,
home for the aged, reformatorv, prison,
or any other institution in which the
inmates may remain for long periods of
time.