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Show 'CENSUS TERHflS AREDEFIHED The oflleia! definitions or the terms "dwelling house" and "family," with icierence to the population schedule to be carried on by ihe enumerators in the thirteenth United States census. Beginning April 15 next, are explained in the census bureau's lengthy printed instructions to the canvassers it is pointed out that answers should only relate to conditions existing on April 15, "census day." Tho words "dwelling house" and "family" are, for census purposes. Riven much a wider application thau they have In ordinary speech. A "dwelling" Is defined as a place in which, at the time of the census, one or more persons regularly sleep. It need not bo a house in the meaning of the word commonly ai-ccpted In Og den, but ma be, for example, a room in a factory, store, or office building, a loft over a stable, n canal boat, a tent or a wigwam The term also Includes In-cludes a hotel boarding or lodging house, a tenement or apartment bouse, an institution or school building, if persons regularly sleep there, as well as the ordinary dwelling house. A "family," as a census term, may mean a group of Individuals who occupy occu-py Jointly a dwelling place or part of a dwelling place.'or an Individual living liv-ing aloue in any place of abode. All the occupants and employes of a hotel, if they regularly sloop there, make up a single family, because they occupy one dwelling place, and persons living alone in cabins, huts or tents; persons oecnpving a room or rooms in public buildings, stores, warehouses or fac- 1 torles. or stables; and persons sleep- I Ing on river boats, canal loats. barges. etc.. if they have no other usual place of abode, are regarded as families. The enumerators are required to enter en-ter on the schedule the name of every person whose usual place cf abode on April 15. 1910. was with the family or In the dwelling place for which tho enumeration Is made. The bead of the family Is to be entered first; then the wife, next the children, whether sons or daughters, In order of their ages; and lastly nil other persons living with the family, whether relatives, boarders, lodgers or servants. The head of the family, whether husband or father, widow or unmarried person of cither sex, is to be designated by fhp word "head," and the other mcni. bers of a family as wife, father, moth cr, son, daughter, grandson, daughter-in daughter-in law, uncle, aunt, niece, boarder, lodger, servant, etc.. according to the particular relationship which the per-son per-son bears to tho head of the family. |