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c. Persons from abroad temporarily visiting or traveling in the United States. (Persons from abroad who are employed here should be enumerated, even though they do not expect to remain here permanently.)

d. Students or children living or boarding with this family in order to attend some school, college, or other educational institution in the locality, but not regarding the place as their home;

e. Persons who take their meals with this family, but lodge or sleep elsewhere;

f. Servants, apprentices, or other persons employed by this family and working in the house or on the premises, but not sleeping there; or

g. Any person who was formerly in this family, but has since become an inmate of an asylum, almshouse, home for the aged, reformatory, prison, or any other institution in which the inmates may remain for long periods of time. (See par. 71.)

60. Such persons will, with occasional exceptions, be enumerated elsewhere, at their homes or usual places of abode, which in some cases may be in your district, but more often will be in other localities.

61. When to make exceptions.—In deciding whether to make an exception to the rule and enumerate in your district a person who is present there but whose usual place of abode is elsewhere, the question to be considered is whether or not that person is represented at his or her home or usual place of abode by a husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, or other relative, or by a housekeeper, servant, or landlady, or by anybody else who will probably give the name to the enumerator of that district when he calls. If not so represented, and, therefore, likely to be omitted at his usual place of abode, he should be enumerated by you.

62. When you find a whole family temporarily in your district, and the head or other representative states that they are not represented by anyone at their usual place of abode, you should ordinarily enumerate them in the regular way.

62a. If, however, you find a family that objects to being enumerated in the population of your district, claiming that their usual place of abode is elsewhere, you should report the fact to your supervisor, using the report card for nonresident family (Form 15-233) for that purpose and stating that the family wish to be enumerated as a part of the population of the place there designated as their usual place of abode. The supervisor will supply you with a special schedule on which to enumerate such family, in accordance with the instructions given on the report card.

63. Servants.-Servants, laborers, or other employees who live with the family and sleep in the same house or on the premises should be enumerated with the family.

64. Boarders and lodgers.-Boarders (that is, persons eating and sleeping at the same place) or lodgers should be enumerated at the place where they are rooming or lodging, if they are there permanently or for reasons of a permanent nature for instance, if that is their usual place of abode while carrying on their regular occupation or business.

65. Transient boarders or lodgers, on the other hand, should not be enumerated at their temporary rooming or lodging place unless it is likely that they will not be enumerated elsewhere. This refers to persons rooming or lodging for a short time at a hotel or a boarding or lodging house, or with a private family, while temporarily absent from their usual places of abode.

66. But transient boarders or lodgers who have no permanent home or usual place of abode should be enumerated where they happen to be stopping at the time of the census. This applies in particular to the lodgers in cheap one-night lodging houses who, for the most part, represent a floating population, having no permanent homes.

67. Construction camps.-Persons in railroad, road, or other construction camps, lumber camps, convict camps, State farms worked by convicts, or other places which have shifting populations composed of persons with no fixed places of abode, should be enumerated where found, except in so far as certain individuals in such camps may have some other usual place of abode where they are likely to be reported.

68. Students at school or college.—If there is a school, college, or other educational institution in your district which has students from outside of your district, you should enumerate only those students who have their regular places of abode in your district. This will include students who live with their parents, permanently and regularly, in your district, together with certain others who have no homes elsewhere. Especially in a university or professional school, there will usually be a considerable number of the older students who are not members of any family located elsewhere and who will be omitted from the census unless you enumerate them. You should make every effort to find and enumerate all such persons.

69. School-teachers.-Teachers in a school or college should be enumerated at the place where they live while engaged in teaching, even though they may spend the summer vacation at their parents' home or elsewhere.

70. Inmates of medical or surgical hospitals.—Most inmates of medical and surgical hospitals are there only for temporary treatment and have other regular places of abode. Therefore, you should not enumerate as a resident of the hospital any patient unless it appears that he has no other usual place of abode from which he is likely to be reported. A list of persons having no permanent homes can usually be obtained from the hospital records.

71. Inmates of prisons, asylums, and institutions other than hospitals. If there is within your district a prison, reformatory, or jail, an almshouse, an asylum or hospital for the insane, a home for orphans, or for the blind, deaf, or incurable, an institution for the feeble-minded, a soldiers' home, a home for the aged, or any similar institution in which inmates usually remain for long periods of time, all the inmates of such an institution should be enumerated as of your district. It is to be specially noted that in the case of jails the prisoners should be there enumerated, however short the term of sentence.

72. Persons engaged in railway services or traveling.-Railroad men, canal men, expressmen, railway mail clerks, traveling salesmen, and the like, usually have homes to which they return at intervals and which constitute their usual place of abode within the meaning of the census act. Therefore, any such persons who may be in your district temporarily on April 1, 1930, are not to be enumerated by you unless they claim to have no other regular place of abode within the United States. But if any such persons have their homes in your district, they should be enumerated there, even though absent on April 1, 1930. (See par. 56.)

73. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and civilian employees of the United States. Soldiers, sailors, and marines belonging to the Army or Navy of the United States, and civilian employees of the United States, are treated as resident at their posts of duty or places where they are regularly employed. If, therefore, any family in your district reports that one of its members is a soldier, sailor, marine, or civilian employee of the United States with a post of duty or station elsewhere, you should not report him as a member of that family. Cadets at Annapolis and West Point are enumerated at those places.

74. If, however, any civilian employee of the United States is regularly employed in your district and has his usual place of abode there, or has his headquarters there, you should report him as a resident of your district and a member of the family with which he has his usual place of abode, even though he may be temporarily absent on an official or other trip.

75. Sailors on merchant vessels.-The officers of merchant vessels under the United States flag should be enumerated at their homes on land, where they will be reported by some member of the family.

76. Special provision is made for the enumeration of the crews of vessels in foreign or intercoastal trade and on the Great Lakes and of the crews of sea-going private vessels of all kinds, except yachts, under the American flag, even though these crews have homes on shore. You should omit such men from your enumeration, therefore, when they are returned as "absent members" by their families. You are to include, however, and report in the regular way, men employed on boats running on the inland waters (rivers, canals, etc.) of the United States, other than the Great Lakes.

77. You are also to enumerate, where found, all persons usually employed on board ship who are out of employment on the census date. Crews of foreign vessels are not to be enumerated.

78. Citizens abroad at time of enumeration.-Any citizen of the United States who is a member of a family living in your district, but abroad temporarily at the time of the enumeration, should be enumerated as of your district. It does not matter how long the absence abroad is continued, provided the person intends to return to the United States. These instructions apply only to citizens of the United States and not to aliens who have left this country.

NECESSITY OF A THOROUGH CANVASS

79. All buildings to be visited.-Be careful to include in your canvass every occupied building or other place of abode in your district. Before leaving any building make sure that you have included all persons living in that building.

80. If any dwelling house or apartment is closed on the day of your visit, do not take it for granted that the place is unoccupied. Find out whether anyone is living there. In an apartment house you should obtain from the manager or the person in charge a list of the tenants, in order to make sure that you omit no one.

81. If a building appears to be used for business purposes only, do not take it for granted that no one lives in it. Make inquiries. Keep in mind also the fact that many clubhouses have at least a few resident members.

82. Individuals out of families.-Be careful not to overlook persons living entirely alone, such as a person occupying a room

or rooms in a public building, store, warehouse, factory, shop, or garage, and having no other usual place of abode; or a person living alone in a cabin, hut, or tent; or a person sleeping on a river boat, canal boat, or barge, and having no other place of abode. (See par. 126.)

83. Method of canvassing a city block.-If your district is in a city or town having a system of house numbers, canvass one block or square at a time. Do not go back and forth across the street. Begin each block at one corner, keep to the right, turn the corner, and go in and out of any court, alley, or passageway that may be included in it until you reach the point of starting. Be sure you have gone around and through the entire block before you leave it.

84. The arrows in the following diagram indicate the manner in which a block containing an interior court or place is to be canvassed:

[blocks in formation]

(Note that block marked "A" is to be fully canvassed before work is undertaken in block "B.")

85. Enumerator's record book. A record book (Form 15-111) has been provided, in which you are to record each case where you find a family not at home on your first call or where you are not able to secure the required information for all persons of the family. You should also make a record in this book of all buildings in your district in which you find that there are no persons to enumerate. This record book you must send to your supervisor with your completed work.

86. Vacant block certificate.-For use in certain cities where the descriptions of the enumeration districts show the individual blocks making up each district, there is provided a vacant block

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