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History from the Census Returns
request for the name of the physician attending the decedent,
and for an attestation or emendation by the physician to the
enumerator's entry giving cause of death.
The old method of seeking "Social Statistics" was abandoned
in 188o in favor of a wide variety of schedules handled by special
agents.14 The regular enumerators were left with a few schedules
classed as supplemental to general Schedule i, Inhabitants, and
deriving from certain queries made in the past partly under
"Inhabitants" and partly under "Social Statistics." These supple-
mental schedules, known collectively as "Defective, Dependent,
and Delinquent Classes," deal with the following: No. 1, Insane;
No. 2, Idiots; No. 3, Deaf-Mutes; No. 4, Blind; No. 5, Homeless
Children; No. 6, Inhabitants in Prison; and No. 7, Pauper and
Indigent Inhabitants.
So much for description of schedules. Where can the returns
of the schedules be had? In one form or another all those for
Texas are to be found in Austin. The United States Bureau of
the Census in 1919 distributed to state and other depositaries
its entire holding of the non-population schedules of the Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Censuses, 1850-1880.15 The Texas State
Library in consequence has for 185o and 186o the Texas returns
of Schedules 3-6, for i870 the Texas returns of Schedules 2-5,
and for 188o the Texas returns of general Schedules 2, 3, and 5,
Special Schedules 1-io (accompanying general Schedule 3), and
Supplemental Schedules 1-7.16 Of the population schedules for
1850, 186o, and 1870, complete microfilm copies (positives) are
in both the Texas State Library and the Archives Collection of
the Library of the University of Texas. The Texas State Library
alone has film copies of the 188o population schedule.17 A rather
14The abandoned schedule was No. 4-hence the gap in number between the
schedule of manufactures and that of mortality.
1IReport of the Director of the Census, September 15, 1919, in Reports of the
Department of Commerce, i919 (Washington, 192o), 6o9.
16The volumes in the Texas State Library appear to contain no returns of
Special Schedules Nos. 11 and 12. The two schedules may have been withdrawn
entirely from the regular enumerators. See Wright and Hunt, History and Growth
of the United States Census, 174.
17The originals of the population schedules, 1790-1880, and of the non-popula-
tion returns, 1820o and 1840o, are in The National Archives, Washington 25, D. C.
Requests for estimates of the cost of microfilm or photostat copies should be303
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