Excerpt from Insane and Feeble-Minded in Hospitals and Institutions, 1904 The conditions under which the statistics contained in this present report were collected necessitated some departures from previous methods of enumerating the insane. The census act of March 6, 1902, provided that the statistics of special classes, including the insane, should be restricted to institutions containing such classes, and that the enumeration should not be undertaken until after the completion of the census of population, agriculture, and manufactures. This pre cluded the employment of the usual census enumera tors. Instead, the schedules were filled out for each institution by the head or a subordinate designated for this purpose as a special agent of the Bureau of the Census. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.