Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-09
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Completed.
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ty People Than Law Required
Young Lady Official Tells of He
'Werk.
| If Uncle Sans eighty odd thous
and anumerators who are to take tn,
decennial census of the country mex
year do anything like as complete /
job IS have Misses Belva Saunder
and Alice Garrison, York count!
school attendance officers who hav'
just completed their census of thu
school children of the rural districts
of York county, the county general!
will have all the information tina
could possibly be desired in regard tt
its population. Misses Saunders ant
Garrison in their exhaustive survey
of the county's school children, have
not only gotten all the information
about those children that the Com.
pulsory school laws OF the state re-
quired them to get; but at the sug-
Igestion Of the County Superintendent
of Education John f. Carroll, they
have gone further and gotten much
information about people who are not
of school age and which makes an in
valuable record. Incidentally, the
York county school attendance officers
are the only officials in the state who
have done this additional work.
People Gladly Aided.
1--WE have completed out task OF
taking the school census in the rural
districts" said Miss Alice Garrison,
county attendance officer, "and the
work has been accomplished without
great deal of trouble. We have
found a tendency on the part of peo-
pie throughout the county both white
and black to give us all the informa-
ton required by the Compulsory at
tendance law promptly and accurately
to the best of their respective abilities,
and they have heartily co-operated
with us in getting the facts that we
sought about people generally in ad-
dition to that information which the
act requires.
"The information required fby the
compulsory School Attendance law
included: color. full name, date of
birth, including the year, month. and
tday: age on last birthday sex; school
attended last year and grade; nam6
of parent or guardian; postoffice ad-
dress and the number of the school
district in which the child resides.
Our inquiry, however, has develop
ed many additional facts including the
maider name of the mother of every
family, the birthday of both parents
the date of marriage, the names of all
children and the birthday of all child
rem regardless of whether or not they
are of school age or over or under;
the names of hubsands of those
daughters of family who are married
and the names of wives of those sons
of a family who are married and their
children.
1.-The census as we have taken It,"
Miss Garrison continued, also in
cludes the information as to whether
every family both white and black
own the premises on which it resides
or whether or not it is rented and II
the family are tenants we have the
name of the landowner and his address.
Physical Statistics.
I'VE have also paid careful atten-
ton to the matter of collecting ply
sical statistics not only in regard to
the children of school age; but all
members of every rural family. We
have information that is almost entire
ly accurate as to the number of blind
that there are in York county both
among whites and negroes. We have
recrod Of the number Of epileptics OF
both races and n bit of the history of
each individual case. There are other
records of this kind that are of value.
1--WE have not yet had time to compile
all of this information as we expect to
do. 1t is a great task, you know, ana
considerable time will be necessary to
complete it in detail. Still, from more
or less careful pcrusal of the records
we have been able to form fairly
good idea as to the number of litter
ates in the county, the number of ply
sically defective and other information.
The number of dcfectives-physicall
defective, by the way, is surprisingly
few, the great population of the coun-
ty being taken into consideration.
Now since we have completed our
census" said Miss Garrison, Miss
! Saunders and I are devoting a consid-
erable portion of our time to inspec-
ting the various schools of the county
and seeing to it that the pupils are
living up to the terms of the COM
pulsory attendance act which re-
uuires that all children between the
ages of and II attend school eighty
consecutive school days each year.
Few Violations.
"The law is being strictly obeyed
throughout the county and so far very
few violations have been reported tc
us. There have been no prosecutions
There has been some misunderstand-
ing about various sections OF the law
but all the kinks are being rapidly
straishtened out. For instance, a few
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