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The act also autlioriztMl the Quinquennial Census of 

 Manufactures; and the annual collection of statistics 

 of Births and Deaths, and of Cotton Production. 



Under the Amendatory Act of June 7, 1906, the first 

 two subjects on the above list of decennial inquiries 

 were replaced by the following: 



Defective, dependent, and delinquent classes.*' 

 Crime, including judicial statistics. 



An attemjit which was made to compile judicial sta- 

 tistics on a comprehensive scale proved to be a failure 

 and the results were never published. The present an- 

 nual compilation of criminal judicial statistics was in- 

 augurated under the joint resolution of Congress passed 

 March 4, 1931. 



The amendatory act added two decennial inquiries 

 to the original list, namely : 



Savings banks, and other savings institutions, mortgage, loan 

 and investment companies and similar institutions. 



Fishing industry in cooperation with the Bureau of BMsh- 

 eries. 



" Proviso In permanent act HmUlng this to institutional classes was 

 not regained in the amendatory act. 



Nothing was ever done with the first of these sub- 

 jects, and as regards the fishing industry only one in- 

 quiry has been made. 



The amendatory act authorized also the quinquen- 

 nial compilation of statistics relating to — 



Street railways and electric light and power, telephone, and 

 telegraph business. 



The compilation of current industrial statistics, be- 

 gun in 1929, was authorized by order of the Secretary 

 of Commerce acting under section 8 of the act of 1903 

 (irganizing the Department of Commerce and Labor. 



Two censuses of business have been taken by the 

 permanent Bureau, one as a Civil Works Administra- 

 tion project covering the year 1933 and the other as a 

 Works Progress Administration j^roject covering the 

 year 1935. But the present permanent census law does 

 not provide for a census of business, although dis- 

 tribution, which forms an important part of the busi- 

 ness census, is included in the scope of the decennial 

 census as defined by the act providing for the Fifteentli 

 and subsequent Censuses. 



Chart indicating the subjects covered by the decennial census, 1790 to 19S0, and by the statistical compilations of the permanent 



Bureau of the Census since 1903. 



* In 1840 an inquiry as to schools and colleges was included in the population 

 schedule. 



* Based mainly on data obtained through the census of manufactures but published 

 as separate reports. 



« In 1890 published under the title Wealth, Debt, and Taxation. 

 T The blind and deaf-mutes in the general population have been enumerated in 

 connection with every population census from 1830 to 1930, inclusive. The population 



censuses from 1850 to 1S90, inclusive, undertook to enumerate the insane and the idiotic; 

 and an enumeration of convicts and prisoners was attempted in 1850 and 1860. 



• Covered by a special report. 



• Mortality was not included in the main decennial census after 1900, but was made 

 an annual compiUtJon under the Permanent Census Act, limited to such States and 

 municipalities as had satisfactory systems of rejJristration. The registration area 

 comprised only 6 of the States in 1902 but now includes all of them. 



