Treaty between Denmark and the United States Act to provide a temporary government for the Virgin Islands Table 11.—Distribution by sex and age periods: 1917 and 1911. Table 12.-Distribution by sex and broad age periods for islands, cities, (3) Number and proportion of persons occupied........... Number and proportion of persons in the general divisions of occupations. Persons occupied, distributed by marital condition. Description of the occupation general tables Table 41.-Total persons 10 years of age and over engaged in each specified Table 42.-Total persons 10 years of age and over engaged in each specified occupation, classified by sex, for islands and cities: 1917... Table 43.-Total persons 10 years of age and over engaged in selected occupations, classified by age periods, color or race, and sex, and by mar- ital condition for persons 16 years of age and over: 1917... Table 44.-Total males and females 10 years of age and over in selected occupations, classified by age periods and color or race, and by marital condition for persons 16 years of age and over, for islands and cities: 1917. MAPS. Fig. 4. Harbor of St. Thomas, Charlotte Amalie.... Fig. 5. Christiansted, St. Croix, from Protestant Cay. Fig. 8. Type of cistern used in storing rain water in rural districts of St. Thomas. Fig. 9. Main Street, Christiansted, St. Croix. Schoolhouse in foreground.... 116 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, Washington, D. C., June 15, 1918. SIR: I submit the following report concerning the special census of the Virgin Islands of the United States, authorized by the Secretary of Commerce at the request of the Secretary of the Navy. Under the terms of the general order promulgated October 1, 1917, by the Director of the Census, and approved by the Secretary of Commerce (Appendix I), a census of the Virgin Islands was ordered to be taken as of November 1, 1917, and Mr. Eugene F. Hartley, chief statistician for manufactures of the Census Bureau, was designated as supervisor in charge. The inquiries were to relate to population, agriculture, manufactures, and fisheries. In addition to these inquiries, at the request of the naval government of the Virgin Islands, statistics relating to wages and hours of labor of persons employed were collected from representative industrial establishments. On account of delays incident to securing transportation, the actual enumeration of the islands did not begin until seven weeks after the date set for the canvass. The supervisor, accompanied by Mr. Arthur J. Hirsch, expert special agent in charge of agriculture; Dr. Alba M. Edwards, expert special agent in charge of population; Mr. Dan C. Vaughan, chief of the division of publications of the Department of Commerce; and Mr. Oscar H. Gordon, Mr. William Ranger, and Mr. George H. Thomas, of the Census Bureau, arrived at St. Thomas on December 17, 1917. On the following day, in conference with Rear Admiral James H. Oliver, naval governor of the Virgin Islands, and his aids, Maj. J. F. Dyer, Lieut. Commander William R. White, and Dr. C. S. Butler, surgeon, United States Navy, the scope of the various inquiries and the organization of the census were discussed. On December 19, through the courtesy of Gov. Oliver, adequate quarters were provided in Fort Christian, in the town of Charlotte Amalie. The division of the island of St. Thomas into 16 enumeration districts--10 in the town of Charlotte Amalie and 6 in St. Thomas rural--and of the island of St. John into 5 enumeration districts was completed (Appendix II). Enumerators were ap (7) |