Blind/Deaf/Dumb ranking system in the 1910 Federal Census?

[ruthruss]

Hi there, have tried Googling and searching on Rootschat but am not coming up with an answer. Can someone please explain to me if there is a ranking system (1 - 10) for "blind, deaf and dumb" on the 1910 Federal Census. This is my relative:

John McCaffery, b. 1875 in Ireland, boarding in 1910 with Dady and Catherine O'Reily (Manhattan). He is a labourer. In the question "Veteran", the answer is 5. "Blind": 9. "Deaf and Dumb": 8. Is this meant to be, between 1 and 10 how blind/deaf/dumb are you? The same with the Veteran question.

I'm new to researching in America, so any help would be appreciated. Many thanks!

[mckha489]

Here are the instructions to the enumerators for 1910

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1910instructions.pdf


Clip attached of the relevant section.
Doesn’t actually help!
Perhaps those numbers were added later in some sort of tallying exercise?  Hopefully someone will know.

And obviously a veteran is either a veteran or not.
Same with the question “survivor of the civil war”.  That is surely either yes or no.  Modified to add clip for this too.

[oldohiohome]

Could it be that the enumerator or his supervisor used those columns for notes or record keeping codes? Can you post it?

[mckha489]

Here

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRNY-T1L?i=1&cc=1727033

[oldohiohome]

Thanks

here is a link to the index results.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M53F-7SW

I don't know what all those numbers mean, but I don't think they are answers to the column headings for anyone on that page. Someone somewhere knows what they are. - I've always just ignored them, but maybe it's time for me to find out.

[ruthruss]

Could it be that the enumerator or his supervisor used those columns for notes or record keeping codes? Can you post it?

Have added an image, and here's the link: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/31776_4449716-01140?pId=18718868

[oldohiohome]

This looks like one of those times when you have to know the answer already in order to find it on Google. I searched for the words "1910 us census codes in last columns" and found this:

"The four numbers you see to the right on the 1910 US census are annotations made during the post-enumeration processing. The codes were placed on the census to support and speed up the keypunch process/system. ... "

at https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/3257/understanding-last-three-columns-of-1910-us-census

There is more there, including the sources for the person's answer.

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Thanks for asking, now we all know

[ruthruss]

This looks like one of those times when you have to know the answer already in order to find it on Google. I searched for the words "1910 us census codes in last columns" and found this:

"The four numbers you see to the right on the 1910 US census are annotations made during the post-enumeration processing. The codes were placed on the census to support and speed up the keypunch process/system. ... "

at https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/3257/understanding-last-three-columns-of-1910-us-census

There is more there, including the sources for the person's answer.

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Thanks for asking, now we all know

That is fantastic. Thank you so much!