Show CENSUS fO fOo o ij DEN CITY CATY FALLING OFF OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE r I Second Ward Shows an Unaccountable Drop of Over in Number or oP Children l The annual school census cennus for Ot 0 den city has just been heen completed by br bythe th the enumerators employed for that purpose Tue report which has been heen delivered to Miss Iy Ivy Williams the cheik of th the board or of education shows a total of children of school a are e In tile tie five tIve of the tho city This number Is 2 less than the tho census report of lust last year Yla r The fIhe decrease Is Ismore ismore I more especially noticeable In the See Sec Second ond wart ward where fifty vacant houses by lare laige families were fount hy by time enumerator The removal of these thee families whore where thero were miny children of school age and the increase of a Greek 10 popS In this ward Is responsible for fOI forthe the tho failing off orf of this years census although of homes have hac been boen unlIt buIlt in the word In the last year em The enumerators chosen gen for tor this work are arc required to exercise care CHIe in th the preparation of their reports TIme Tho law hw requires rho census to ho be talen each year car between 15 antI and August 1 an and l time the report of th the enumerators to ln he pieced In the han hands s of lie hoard of education b by AU August 10 The rhe school ao age Is fixed from Crom six sixto sixto to eighteen years eam The report just shows the following number of children of school age from each elch ward First ward 1420 Second ward Third ward 11 1177 ii Fourth ward 1621 Fifth ward 1597 |