The eleventh census / by Robert P. Porter.

  • Robert Percival Porter
Date:
1891
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Credit: The eleventh census / by Robert P. Porter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ctinuot be correct. The remedy for iill this is a permanent Census Bureau, and already the intelligent public sentiment of all politi- cal parties is crystallizing in this direction. People are beginning to realize that the faults and errors of this Census are not the shortcomings of any one man, but of a system. In accordance with a resolution of the Senate I am preparing a report and bill for a permanent Census Bureau, which, if enacted, will remedy much of the decennial census trouble, and put a great public work on a business basis. Such a Bureau would not only be an immense saving to the government, especially since the intro- duction of mechanical tabulation, but it would keep active and competent minds continually working out improvements in census methods; it would keep together a nucleus of trained census clerks and capable mathematicians; it would admit of certain branches of work being done annually at a cost of. a few million circulars and a small amount expended for tabulation; it would give suflBc- ient time to perfect the work of enumeration, and it would give general satisfaction to all who are earnestly in search of correct statistics of our nation's population and wealth. As statisticians, I hope you will help this idea along. It is growing with our statesmen. It is not a party question, and its success will be bene- ficial to all people.
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