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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt:...is nianuiaetured, etc. When you come upon shops of this kind, you will inform yourself by entering whether manufacture or handicraft is carried on within. In case it is, you will note the address. The success of this preparatory tour, which depended entirely upon the zeal of the enumerators, varied very much in the different districts. The total number of preparatory blanks made out for 68 larger communes (each with more than 10,000 inhabitants) amounted to 59,633. The enumerators discovered 5,289, or 8.9 per cent, more concerns. In the city of Brussels, however, where an especially large number of additional concerns might have been expected, not one single concern was found by the enumerators. (2) With regard to the census of the "industrial households," the entries in the population records referring to the name, sex, place and year of birth, conjugal condition, relationship to the head of the household, and occupation of all the members of an industrial household were transcribed to Schedule B, which was then used in taking the census proper. Accordingly the agent by whom the census was taken received these schedules partially filled out. The instructions to the agents merely stated that an agent in going through the streets assigned would perhaps find "industrial households" for which no schedules had been delivered, and that in such cases he was to make out a schedule himself. He was reminded that he was personally interested in making these researches very carefully, as his reward would be higher for the forms of those households which he discovered himself. This appeal, however, had not the desired effect, probably because the additional reward did not pay for the trouble of making a research for...