1895 State Census of Iowa

1895 State Census of Iowa, Decatur County

Enumerator, not listed

Pages 1 - 2

These two pages are the last two pages in the book and contain a list of people from Decatur County who were institutionalized at the time of the census. The institutions were listed by location and are as follows:

Anamosa	Penitentiary
Council Bluffs	Iowa School for the Deaf
Clarinda	Clarinda Hospital for the Insane
Eldora	Industrial School for Boys (Reformatory)
Ft Madison	Penitentiary
Glenwood	Iowa Institution for Feeble-minded Children

The only information recorded for institutionalized persons using the standard census format was name, age, sex, race, marital status, and birthplace. All other data columns were blank. The towns/townships from which they came were written as section headings. The institution in which the person resided was written in the family/dwelling columns as an abbreviation of the institution's location. Because the home towns/townships and the institutions did not follow the standard census format, the unused columns of "Religion" and "Occupation" were used by the transcriber to list the person's home town/township and where they were institutionalized, respectively.