1880 Supplemental Schedule 3, for the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes Idiots

The object of this Supplemental Schedule is to furnish material not only for a complete enumeration of the idiots, but for an account of their condition. It is important that every inquiry respecting each case be answered as fully as possible. Enumerators will, therefore, after making the proper entries upon the Population Schedule (No. 1), transfer the name (with Schedule paper and number) of every idiot found, from Schedule No. 1 to this Special Schedule, and proceed to ask the additional questions indicated in the headings of the several columns. The word “idiot” has a special meaning which it is essential for every enumerator to know. An idiot is a person the development of whose mental facilities was arrested in infancy or childhood before coming to maturity. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the stupidity which results from idiocy and that which is due to the loss or deterioration of mental power in consequence of insanity. The latter is not true idiocy, but dementia or imbecility. The enumeration desired for the Census is of true idiots only. Demented persons should be classed with the insane. Enumerators may obtain valuable hints as to the number of idiots, and their residences, from physicians who practice medicine in their respective districts. Number taken from Schedule No. 1 01 Number of Page 02 Number of Line 03 Name Residence when at home. -(See note A.) 04 City or Town 05 County (if in same State), or State (if in some other State) 06 Is he (or she) self-supporting, or partly so? (See Note B.) 07 Age at which idiocy occurred. (See Note C.) 08 Suppose Cause of idiocy (if acquired). (See Note D.) 09 Size of head. (Large, small, or natural.) Training School 10 Has this person ever been an inmate of a training school for idiots? If yes, name the said training school. 11 What has been the total length of time spent by him (or her) during life in any such training school or training schools? 12 Date of discharge. (Year only.) See Note E. 13 Is this person also insane?/. 14 Is he (or she) also blind?/. 15 Is he (or she) also deaf?/. 16 Is he (or she) also an epileptic?/. Is he (or she) paralyzed? And if yes, on which side? 17 Right./. 18 Left/./ NOTE A – An idiot may be found either at his own home or away from it in some institution, such as a training school, asylum, or poor-house. In the latter case, his residence when at home must be stated, in order that he may be accredited to the State or county to which he properly belongs, and that the county in which the institution is situated may not be charged with more that its due proportion of idiots. NOTE B – If self-supporting, say “yes;” if partly self-supporting, say “partly;” if not, say “no.” Indicate all inmates of institutions who are maintained or treated at their personal expense (not at the expense of any town, county, or State, nor of the institution) by the word “Pay.” NOTE C – If an idiot from birth, say “B;” if idiocy occurred after birth, state the age at which it occurred. Special pains should be taken to indicate all idiots from birth. NOTE D – The causes of idiocy are such as the following; scarlet fever, measles, meningitis, etc., blow on head fall, etc., fright, etc. NOTE E – In making entries in columns 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, an affirmative mark only will be used, thus /.

Franklin Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 56 Enumerated by Merrick Davis
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
18	41	Cary, Clara B	Garden Grove	Decatur	No	Birth	Inter Mariage	Small	No
Decatur Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 57 Enumerated by James H. Gray
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
9	17	Thomas, John		Decatur
Leon, Center Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 58 Enumerated by S.C. Mitchell
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
7	13	Lincoln Short	Leon	Decatur	No	1/12	Fall when month old	27 inches
13	18	Wm F Roy	Leon	Decatur	No	infant	Measles &  fits	Natural							1
4	24	Eliza Detrick	Leon	Decatur	Partly	B	Intemperance of father	Natural
Burrell Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 60 Enumerated by W. H. Albaugh
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
15	48	Jimes, John W	Burrell Tp	Decatur	No	B	Mother shocked with lightning before he was born	Natural	No
7	33	Venn, John W	Burrell Tp	Decatur	No	B		Natural	No
Eden Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 62 Enumerated by C.F. Matsler
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
7	39	Sly, Ellen		Decatur	No	8yrs		Natural							1
13	18	Blackburn, Sally		Decatur	Partly	B	Hereditary	Natural
13	12	Boyer, Sylvester		Decatur	Partly	B	before birth, abuse of mother	Natural							1
17	29	Smith, Andrew		Decatur	No	6yrs	Spinal Disease	Natural							1	1	1
24	29	Mullin, Isaac		Decatur	Partly	B	birth child to an epileptic	Natural							1
31	13	Vandel, Eliza		Decatur		B	Exposure of mother	Large
7	38	Houchen, Sarah
Morgan Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 263 Enumerated by S.G. Wright
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
14	20	McCully, Emily a	Morgan Tp	Decatur	No	B		Small	No
14	21	McCully, Mierva J	Morgan Tp	Decatur	No	B		Small	No
Richland Twp; Supervisor's Dist No. 3, Enumeration Dist. No. 255 Enumerated by W.H. Albaugh
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Notes
1	46	Newton, Browing	Westerville		No	B		Large	No
7	3	Harold, Levi M	Westerville		No	4	Knock on head	Natural	No
5	3	Carrell, William	Westerville		Partly	B	unknown	Natural	No
15	32	Grim, E.J.	Westerville		No	B	unknown	Small	No						1

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