Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-03-11
HOW CENSUS WILL
BE ENUMERATED.
All Statistics to be as OF April
18Th, Which is the Official
Census Day"

census Ody'
Washington, March THE ex-
plicit and lengthy printed instruc-
tons to the census enumerators,
which have been prepared by the
United States census bureau, give
a clear idea of the character Of the
answers expected from the peor!a
of the United States with regard 20
the question in the population
schedule to be carried in the de-
cennial census April 18th next.
All answers are to have reference
solely to the census day, which is
April 18th, Persons living on that
day, but who died before the emu
merators call, are to be counted,
but persons born after April 18th
are not to be included in the count.
Persons who were single April 18th
are to be reported as single, even if
they have married subsequently
and before the canvasser h%s cai-
ed. This is true, similarly, of per
sons who became widowed or di-
vorced after April 18th.
The census law provides that all
persons shall be enumerated at
their usual place Of abode on April
18th. This means the place where
they may be said to live or belong
or the place which is their home.
AS a rule, the usual place of abode
is not the place where a person
works or where he eats, but where
he regularly sleeps. The enumera-
tors are cautioned, however, that
where a man happens to sleep at
the time of the enumeration may
not be the place he regularly
sleeps.
There will be a number of per-
sons having their usual places Of
abode in enumeration districts who
will be absent April 18th. These
are to be included and enumerated
after the facts regarding them have
been obtained from their families,
relatives, acquaintance or other
person able to give the information.
For instance, if a member of any
family in an enumeration district is
temporarily away from home on a
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 a
daughter regularly living in anoth-
er locality, should not be counted
with the family at home.
Servants, laborers or other en-
ployes, who live with the family
and sleep in the same house or on
the premises, should be enumerat
ed 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 emu
meration who do not have their u.s.
ual places OF abode there. 1t must
be assumed that they will be emu
merated elsewhere. Therefore, the
canvassers should not, unless it is
practically certain that they will
not be enumerated elsewhere,
enumerate or include with the
members of a family they are
enumerating any of the following
classes:
Persons visiting family.
Transient boarders or dodgers
who have some other usual or per-
manent pace of abode.
Students or children living or
boarding with a family in order to
attend some school, college or 9TH
er educational institution in the To-
cality. but not regarding the place
as their home.
Persons who take their meals
with family, but lodge or sleep
somewhere else.
Servants, apprentices or other
persons employed by family and
working in the house or on the
premises, but not sleeping there.
Any person who was formerly in
a family, but who has since be-
come a permanent inmate of an
asylum, almshouse, home for the
aged, reformatory, prison or any
other institution in which the in {
mates may remain for long periods I
of time.