The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-28
/. S. Bureau of Census
AS Nations Calculator
Is Incentive to Cities

1 1mpli0cd. In aomc respects. how
/ ever tn" Inquiries. particularly those
/ In regard 90 agriculture. have been
. simpliticd.
Women In IHcil Work.
For the first time women were
/ used as suporvisurs Of field work.
The experiment was mos' sucCcs,'-
tul Of tho 572 supervisors origi-
uthy appointed. three were women
aud later two women wcrc Hppoint-
ci to IN vacancies. TWO OF these
supervisors were appointed I'm Texas
/ one In New York, one IN Nevada aud
one In Illinois
because " tho Grcat number Of
+ foreigners Ia large Cltlrg who were
suspicious OF the census tho work
was moro difficuI, than I'm rural dis
trlCts. In those cities he super
visors were empowered 10 appoint
assistants designated az inspectors.
In selections OF the cities populated
largely 10y the foreign element, cspe-
. oially whero tCnements and lodging
\ houses were numerous, those luspcc-
tors were particularly needed. When
the enumerator merely had to 30
4 from house to house ana obtain
from some member OF the family
the necessary Information the work
the enuerutor had ~ interview the
proprietor or ~, jaH!tor of al apatt-
ment house In order to obtain iutor-
nation regarding persons he was un-
abie ~ interview those difficulties
greatly increased.
Census of Those In Service.
For the fourteenth census the
Panama Canal Zone and the islands
OF Samoa and Guam were for the
First time included. In order to cx-
tend the census to include them,
schedules, Instructions and other
blanks were accordingly prepared to
harmonile with the main census Of
the United States and were duly
forwarded to the governors, who ap-
pointed the enumorators and organ
lzed the work of taking the census.
u IN Guam and Samoa the census in
cluded live stock and agricultural
products az well as population.
steps were taken in July, 1919, for
the proper enumeration on all per
sons In the military and naval scrv-
Ice. who because OF the war and
other reasons, were likely to be alb
sent from their usual places OF resi-
| dcnCe at the time OF the census in
January, 1920. This also applied to
all civilians likely to be absent from
this country during the enumeration
period.
/ N!nety-six semiautomatic tabulat-
ing machines Cfcd by handJ were
used during the thirteenth census.
| These machines had an average out
put of $4,000 cards a day each. In
It's own mechanical laboratory the
census bureau has constructed 81
automatic tabulating machines, self
! IA "a a
! population in the fourteenth census.
! Each OF these machines is capa BILE
! OF handling 500 cards a minute. Re
/ Gently one Of these machines used
in the division of vital statistics tab
ulated 2O7.2Gl cards in a seven hour
/ day, at the rate Of 23.6O3 cards an
hour or 493 minute.
| To carry the provision of the law
which provides that an enumeration
Of the blind and deaf be made in
! connection with the population CEN
sus the enumerators secured on q
supplemental schedule the name and
address OF each blind person or deaf
mute. This was a change from the
procedure Ia 1910 when the enumer-
ators merely noted the cases OF
! blindness and ceaf-mutism in col
umns provided for that purpose on
the main population schedule.
The presentation OF the s;atistics
/ Of manufacturers OF large manufac-
/ turing zones Will be q feature OF tho
census for 1920. This method OF
/ presentation was employed at form
or censuses for Is metropolitan dis
/ tricts having y population OF 100000
or over.
Gather Vital Statistics.
[ Beginning with 1915. the bureau
4 Of the census has made annual col
lections OF birth statistics from a
registration area made up Of tho
District OF Columbia and those
states having adequate registration
systems. Since 1915 this area has
I grown very rapidly az in that year
IL comprised only 10 states and the
! District Of Columbia. Thirteen states
have been admitted to tho birth reg
isrration since 1915, az follows: 1916.
Z Maryland; 1917, Indiana, Kansas,
. Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio,
II Utah, Virginia, Washington and
Wisconsin, 1919, California, Oregon
and South Carolina, making in all
20 states and the District of Co.
lumbia.
4 The number of births by sex, coll
or, and month Of occurrence are
shown in the statistics for the regia-
trat!on area births Of whito chill
dren by country Of birth OF father
and mother, total deaths births per
100 deaths. birth and infant mortal
ity rates,
Another activity Of the bureau OF
census is the publication Of the
weekly health index. which was in
augurated in 1917 with +6 Of the
cities OF 100000 population or over
| rprIrflup has bptu enlarged Ly the