1903 Annual Census Report
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REPORT W 84 DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1903 IXEPORT OF TRP DIRECTOR OF T1HE CENSUS. UNITED ~~!ATESCENSUS ~FFICE, TTic1~7,i,r,qto7z,I). (A J~JZL~Y15, 1903. SIR: I have the honor to submit Lhe follo\ving report upon the ol-'eratioas of the Census Oftice For the fisenl year ended dune 30,1903, on which clr~tethe relntions of the Census Office to the I)epnrtment of the Interior cainn to a11 end hy tl-ansier to the juriscliction of the D~partrnealof Commerce and Lnbor, ~ulclortlie pro\~isionsof the act of Congress ngproved Fc1)runry 14, 1903. I took tho oath of oEcc ns tho snccessor of Director William 12. Merrit~111,resi .ned, on the Nth of June last, so that I. hnvc lseen in char e of the Gensns+ OHice 1)ut twenty-three clays of the fisoal year to mhic7 1 this ~eportreli~tes. I lou~ldthe wol.lr of tlie oflic~eprogressing eflicicntly ancl sntisfac- io~ily,nnder the ~?rovisionsoC thc act for the cstnblishu~entof the permanent, Census Oflice, tapproved March (i,1902. The first conlplete jroiLr of operation uncler the law is covered 11y this report. CLERICAL AND FIELD FORCE. ,Tune 30, 1903, the last day of your jurisilictiou, the employees of the Census Oflice umbered ?tl-7, classified ns follows: Chief clerk, J3dwarc2 McCauley. Chic1 stt~tisticia~lfor pol)nli~tion,William C. T-lunt. Chief stt~tisticimlfor mrtnnfactm.es, Willialn 1\I. Steuart. Chief statistician for zigriculture, Le Grand Powers. Chief statisticia11 for vital statistics, Williai~lA. Icing. Disbursing clerk, John W. Langlejr. Expert chiefs of di~lision........... 4 Slrilled laborers ................... 11 Clerlrs, class 3. .................... (i TVatchmcn ........................ 10 Stenogrq)her ................... .. 1 Messengers ................... .... 5 Clerks, class 2.. ................... 10 Aasi,stant lmeauengerfi.. ............. 12 Clerlrs, class 1.. ................... 296 TJ~~slrillecllaborers. ................ 15 Clerks, $7,000. .................... 2G3 Charwomen ....................... 36 Clerks, $900 ....................... 72 There weye also upon the rolls of the CCIISLISOffice 689 s11ecinl k~gents, most of who111 -were employecl teinpora~~ilpin the South for the pus- pose of collectiag statistics of cotton procluction. % DISBURSEMENTS. The total amount of disburselnellts for the pennnnent Census Ofice during this jrcar was $1,382,996.28, as shonra by the report of the dis- bursing officer of the Census Office, ~vhiohis attached as a11 appendix 3 1903 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS. to this report. TOthis silin slioulcl be aclclecl the ticcounts cllargeal~lt' i against the fiscal yenr encling ,June 30, 1903, which have been 1)l.c- I senteil for l>aymeut, iiulounting to $tjO,485.65, making. since Julp 1, 1903, the total cost for that ye:w $1,343,481.il3. It is estiln~tedtk~:~f; the cost of printing ordcrccl during the s:Lme year, lsnt according B inforination ol)tainecl froin the Government Printing Oflice, not beyxu1 until aftcr the encl of tllc year, arid therefore charget~blcto the al>prc)- priation for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1904, will 1)e about $70,000. The total cost of the C.lensus Oflice froni its orgallixation l~nclrrthe ac.6 of March 3,1899, to the close of the last fiscal ye:Lr wns $13,116,439.27. The cost of carrying on the, work. of the oflice for the fiscal ye:L1' covered by this report was $409,868.39 less than the appropriatiotls available for that purpose. Urlder the l~rovisionsof the act to sup1)l.y~ cloficiencies in the al3propriations for the liscd year eliding June :3(1, 1903, approvecl March 3, 1903, as construecl ancl iliterls~-~tcclI)g tilts Attorney-General of the United States, at your request, the whole cjt' this unexpenclecl balance is available for gcnernl ccnsus purposcs dnring the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. Aclcling this unexpeactccl balance to thc regular nl~propri:~tionvotccl by Congress for the toll- claet of the Census O.ffice for the cnrrent fiscal year, $1,183,260 (whit-11 incl~tdesthe allotmerit of $250,000 in the appropriation for public: printing and bincling for that year), we have the total ~11111r~vailnl)lc? for th3 purpose of $1,585,528.29 or $242,046.36 in excess of the tott~1 expenclit~~resfor the fiscal yea]. encling J~ule30, 1903. , The act of Congress uncler which the Twelfth Census was fz~l<(?il recluirecl that the reports relating to the four main sn1)jccls of ccns~ts inquiry-population, agriculture, manufnct~u.es,ancl vital statistics--- shonlcl be col~lpletecland published on or before July 1, 1908; nltd 111;~ predecessor, in his last annual report to you, was able to inalre tlic?~ gmtifying announcement that this pro~~isioiiof the law had been SILL>- staritialljr compliccl with. The schcdulcs of thc Twelfth Census, lio-\v- ever, col~taina great den1 of va1ual)lc nncl intcresting data collcctc?ci in accordsnce with tho law, tlie co~nl?lelecompilation and pul.)lic:~tii~~~ of which was physically impossible m~ithiu,the t,illlc lilrlit above rcfel~l,ocl to. The inforn~t~tioncomprisecl in tliese data is clesirccl hy the pnl)lie, aiicl its r)11blict~fiorlis cssrntinl to a perfect ceiisus; the LXrector accorrl- ingly orclered its compilation, Work nl)on these sul~plemantalrepol-ts of the Twelfth Censncl has been continued throughout the iiscal ycs~l-, chief y in the division of population, under Mr. Wjlliani C. Hlln t, ch it? L! stalislician. One of the most iiilportatlt lines of snpplemeatsl investigat,ion it) this clivision lias been the preparation of n rel~ortou occu~~ntions(con- taining statistics in the ~naill reselnbling those pycscntcd for tlzcs Elevclnth Census), which is now nearing complelion and mill be pu1)- lished clnring tlie present year. The statistics of occupations appearing in the luain report 011 po1)rr- lation were limited to tables presenting clctnils for the Unitccl Stntcs @ ancl for each state ancl territory, :~ndconclensecl facts for principcrl cities, concerning the nnmber of males ancl feillales 10years of age 811~1 over cngi~gcclin cacll specified occupation ancl in each of thc five ~nnill groups of occnptttions. In the supplemental report abont to be pn1,- RICPOnT OF TI-IE DILtECTOR OF THE CENSUS. 5 liphecl will ILP~JCIL~the cletniled classiiicatiou of persons engagccl in gainful occuptbtions in 1900, ~~c~orcling.to g~~~eral n~fivity, ~olor, age, conjugal condition, parcnb~ge,aud ino~ithsnnen~ployrd. Thc general tal)lcs of this report are now in type and occupy 763 l)ng.cn. The grci~lcrportion of this spncc is clevotecl to two ti~hles,Nos. 4.1 r$) and 43, the formo~.1.elating to states arid territories :~uclthc latter to cities h:lviiig n population of 50,000 and nl~marcl. Tliesc tables together occnl~y4-88 pages. They prrsriit in clctail ligurcs for e:~ch sex scpa- rntely, a~iclthc nurilber of worlcers in the pri~ici~s~loc~c~~patiori )I OLI~S, elassiiied soccessi\lely hj. general ontivity, i:olor, iige, colijugt$iondi- tion, paro~ilnge,ancl l~erioclof i~o~ieil~ploy~l~e~it. The clivisioll has also been engaged in the fturthcr rc~ificnlionalld tabultttion 01' the stntistice derived i'ro~llthe :l.usmers to the taro inquiries on tlie l,opulatioii schecl~~lerelative to the nnnlbcr of cllilclrcn boru aild the nnmbcr living at the tilne of taking tlic census in June, 1!400. Siii~ilarii~forniation was coll~?cledat the caensnsof 1890, hut it was not ta1)ulatecl on accouill of the teiiipornry o~gnniz~tionof tllc office, which ~racticallymcnt out of existeilcc early i11 18!-15, following tho pnblicn- tion of the general results of the Eleventh Census. This worlr relalive lo chililrcil born and living IL~tlie Twelfth Cen- sus, in sccordancc with tl~cplan now being lollowecl, contemplates the limitation of the tnbulaliol~s,first, to 111arried wolllen 110th of vhosc parents weye born in the snnlc county R~IC~1v110se l~~sbn~iclswere livii~g with theill at the time the census was hkcn, because the census cioes not enixmcrate pcrsons tvhere they nse " prcscnt" hut at their nsunl place of abode, so that husband and wife were eni[memted as a part of the sanic census fgtmily; second, to a suhclivision of this class of women according to (a) color (white or blaclr), (7,) geaernl nativity (native or foreign born), (c) pnrenlagc (both pareuts born in tlie U~iileclStates or in 1 of 19 foreign countries), (d) nalivitj~nncl parentngc of hnsb~ad (same nativity aiid pnrentnye as ~llile),(8) t~gcof wife (quincyucnni~l period), ancl (f) cli~r:~tior~of marringe (n~unherof years married to prese~lthushand); and third, to n tahulntion for cacll of these groups accorcling to the number of children born aucl living. Tlic sorting of the carcls in numerical orcler by enrnlleratio~~districts, preparatory to the ~vorlrof transcription (by p~ullolling)c~lrcacly out- linccl, invol~~csthe succcssi.ire hnndling of about lR,i301),000 cards nccorcling to et~ohof the gang-punch "fielcls )' nncl by card uumbcrs, ancl of this work very iicnrlg foul.-fifths has l~eencompleted. A conside~~ahleforce of the division of popalntion was employecl, particularly in thc earlier niollths of the iiscnl gcar, in :L genesst1 revisioii of the posting sheets from which were clerivecl bhc tabular presentation includecl it1 the Iteport on Population, in order not 0111~7 to condense lnnttcr that inust bc retainecl as a part of the perlllaaent records, but also to 111alre it pel-missiblc to clestro~rn large nuliil~erof restzlt slips which otherwise wo~llclhave to be stored a~iclcared for.