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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA.

Instructions for Family Schedule.

A family schedule must be made out for every group of two or more related persons living under conditions of family life. Boarders, lodgers and servants, are to be entered on separate individual schedules. Hotels, etc., should be entered on an institution schedule, and the inmates on family and individual schedules.

Question 1. Enter here the number of persons in the family, exclusive of lodgers, boarders, visitors or servants.

Question 2. Facts for the head of the family should be entered in the first column, and he or she should be designated as Head, whether man, woman, married or single. Give the other members the term which will indicate their relation to the head; as wife, son, daughter, sister, etc, or mother (i. e. mother of head of family), etc.

Question 3. Abbreviate to M. (male), or F. (female).

Question 4. Give exact years, as, 17, 29, 31, 43, etc., and do not say “about” 25, 30, 35, 40. Enter children less than one year old on the 1st of December, in twelfths of a month, as 6-12, 3-12, etc.; or if not one month old, as 0-12.

Question 5. Enter as married (mar.), single (sing.), widowed (wid.). and separated (sep.).

Question 6. Give State and town.

Questions 7 and 8. Give approximate number of years.

Question 11. This refers to the children of the family.

Questions 12 and 13. Write “Graduate—Girls ‘High,’ 96” or “Attendant Institute for Colored Youth, 3 yrs.,” etc. Schools higher than common schools are here referred to. Answer this for all members of the family.

Questions 14 and 15. This is an important inquiry. Simple as it appears, it is always difficult in census work to get satisfactory replies to this question. Inaccuracy and insufficiency of statement are the most prominent evils to be avoided:

For instance, remember: we want to know not what a man “works in,” but just what he does.

We want to distinguish between : the owner or director of a business and one who works at it; between waiters and head-waiters; between cooks in private families and in hotels; between coachmen, hackmen, and draymen; between merchants and pedlars, and those who keep stands.

Do not say:

“Printer,” but “compositor,” or “pressman;” not “mechanic,” but “carpenter” or “plumber;” not “agent,” but “real-estate agent;” not “merchant” or “pedlar,” but “dry-goods merchant” or “pedlar—tinware”; not “clerk” but “salesman in hardwarein addition pursues a gainful occupation, as store,” “stenographer,” “bookkeeper,” etc.

Describe women who keep house at home as “housewives;” those who keep house for others as “housekeepers.” If the woman does her own housework, and in addition pursues a gainful occupation, as dressmaking, enter: “housewife—dressmaker,” or “housewife— day's-work-out.”

Daughters, etc., who help with housework, should be entered: “housework—no pay.” Those who do nothing should be entered as “no occupation.” Children, too young to have an occupation, should be entered “at home,” or “at school.”

Question 17. Answer only one of these—preferably one of the first two. Seek to approximate the truth as nearly as possible.

Question 22. This refers to sickness that was severe enough to interfere seriously with daily work.

Question 23. Give the name of the disease or ailment.

Question 25. Give dates as nearly as possible, and addresses.

Question 26. Enter either the reason given or the reason surmised, or both.

Question 28. Give street and number.

Question 30. Give names of societies.

Question 32. This question is optional, and is only for those who are able to give their expenditure in some detail. Fill only one of the three columns for each particular item (e. g. rent yearly, food weeklyno information is given, etc.) and seek by reference to written accounts to make this report accurate. Remember that income, expenditure and savings must balance.

Question 33. Enter this under one of the following heads: A. Athletics (bicycling, baseball, etc.). B. Music. C. Church entertainments. D. Indoor games (cards, billiards, etc.). E. Balls. F. House-parties. G. Picnics and excursions. H. Theatres.

Remember to enter here the actual chief amusement, not merely the one the person likes best, but does not often enjoy.

Question 35. Give relationship to head of family.

Where the question only applies to certain members of the family, put a cross in the spaces where there are no answers expected. Where no information is given, put “unknown,” or “unanswered.”

Finally, remember that the information given is confidential ; the University of Pennsylvania will strictly guard it as such, and allow no one to have access to the schedules for other than scientific purposes. We ask, under these conditions, careful, accurate, and truthful answers.

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CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SEVEN.

Individual Schedule, 2.

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CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SEVEN.

Home Schedule, 3.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOME SCHEDULE.

Every structure in which persons live is a dwelling for the purposes of this investigation, whether wholly so occupied or not. In each dwelling there will be one or more homes; for each such home a Home Schedule must be made out, and at its top the schedule number of the corresponding family or individual inserted.

Question 4. If it occupies the house, put “whole house.”

Questions 14, 15, 16, 17. Answer Yes or No. Note whether these facilities are used by one or more homes ?

Questions 19, 20, 21, 22. Answer excellent, good, fair or bad.

Question 26. This refers primarily to the living room. Note the presence of the following articles: piano, organ, parlor-suit, sewing-machine, bookshelves, couch, centre-table, rocking-chair, etc.

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CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SEVEN.

House Servant Schedule, 4.

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CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SEVEN

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STREET SCHEDULE.

A “street” in this Schedule is meant to designate not necessarily the whole street which bears one name—as Lombard from river to river—but rather such parts of streets as have a common character; thus four or five Schedules would be necessary for the distinctive parts of Lombard Street, two for Juniper, several for Pine, one for Wetherill.

1. Characterize the street concisely; as, “respectable residence street,” or “blind alley with tumble-down brick houses.”

4. Answer by Yes or No.

5. Note whether the houses are dwellings, stables, etc., respectable, suspicious, etc.

8. Estimate carefully; as one-third dwellings, or one-half back yards, etc.

9 and 10. Ask a policeman, or one or two of the persons dwelling there. Do not depend on your own observation, unless it extends over some time.

11. Answer by excellent, good, fair, or bad.

14. Give number.

15. Give names.

16. Give number, names and denomination.

17 and 18. Give number.

19. This includes hospitals, clubs, missions, manufactories. Note clubs of all sorts carefully, and ascertain their character if possible. Enter all these institutions by name.

20. This refers to public water-closets, baths, urinals, and lavatories.

21. Give approximate distribution and character of shops.

22. Make here any concise statement that will throw light on the street and its inhabitants.

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CONDITION OF THE NEGROES OF PHILADELPHIA, WARD SEVEN.

Institution Schedule, 6.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTITUTION SCHEDULE.

This includes all institutions conducted by Negroes wholly or partially, or wholly or partially in the interest of the Negroes; as, e. g., churches, missions, clubs, shops, stands, stores, agencies, societies, associations, halls, newspapers, etc.

Find out the object of the enterprise (philanthropic, social, business, etc.), the capital invested, the property owned, taxes paid, income for past twelve months, character and amount of expenditure, sort of quarters occupied, and persons connected, etc., aiming, in all cases, to collect essential facts.

Especially try and find out whether the enterprise is that of one person, of a partnership, or is a co-operative enterprise among a large number. If in any degree co-operative, bring out the extent, character and objects of the co-operation.