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The numbering of the houses about to be undertaken in country 
districts was necessary in order to estimate the number of house- 
holders’ schedules required and also in order to afford the best possible 
itinerary to the official enumerators. 
In the case of estates in which the manager was ex-officio en- 
umerator the actual numbering of the houses was left to the Manager’s 
discretion, all that was required was that he should ensure the 
enumeration of every person sleeping in any building on his estate on 
the night of March 10th, 1911. 
Managers were requested to notify the District Officers of any 
instances of houses within the boundaries of their estates having 
numbers affixed to them by the official numberers. In such cases the 
houses in question would be excised from the District House List. 
The total number of houses on an estate was, however, required 
for Census purposes and the number of persons resident thereon was 
also required to render it possible to estimate the nunber of the house- 
holders’ schedules to be issued to the estate. 
For these reasons Managers would be requested to furnish in- 
formation on Census Form 9, Estates Statistical Return. 
As regards the item “ Planted Area ” of estates, the total planted 
area of all estates in a district was the only derived figure which 
would be published, and no figures in respect of individual estates 
would be divulged. On receipt of Form 9 from estates an estimate 
of the schedules required for each estate would be made and this 
estimated number of schedules would be forwarded to the manager by 
the middle of February, 1911. There would, thus, be time for mana- 
gers to report any shortage of schedules to the District Officer before 
enumeration commenced. In the case of estates, the managers would 
probably have to appoint persons to carry out the preliminary 
enumeration and make the entries for the coolies on the schedules. 
Any person so appointed should be thoroughly capable of filling in 
schedules correctly and neatly in English. 
The various houses on the estate should be divided up amongst 
the persons appointed to carry out enumeration in such a manner 
that all houses on the estate are allotted to some enumerator or other. 
During the three or four days prior to the Census day, the 10th March, 
1911, the enumerators should fill in the particulars required in respect 
of all persons living in the houses allotted to them and the Manager 
should be in possession of all schedules by noon on the 10th March, 
1911, to afford an opportunity of seeing that they are properly filled 
in. 
Coolies should, as far as is reasonable, be prevented from leaving 
the estate on the night of 10th March, 1911, and early on the morning 
of the Ilth March the manager should hold a muster or musters of 
all persons on the estate at convenient places. He should check the 
