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EXPLANATION | |
| sex | for male write M, for female F |
| age | give the age at last birthday |
| color | for white write W; for mulatto M; for black B; for yellow Y; for Indian I |
| occupation | before admission to almshouse |
| civil condition | for single (never married) write S; married M; widowed W; divorced D |
| birthplace | If in the State, write the town or county; if in another State of County write that |
| parentage | the column marked F stands for father; M for mother; in either case write United States, U.S.; for British America, B.A.; for Ireland, Ir; for England, E; for Scotland, Sc; for Spain, Sp; for Sweden, Sw; for Italy, It; for Norway, N; for Austria, A; for Prussia, P; for Germany, G; for Holland, H; for Belgium, B; for France, F; for China, Ch. |
| residence | before admission to almshouse |
| education | the column marked R stands for Read; W for Write. If the person admitted can read write yes, if not No and the same as to his ability to write. |
| health | if in good health and no disability write Good, or simply G; if sick write the disease: consumption, fever, pleurisy. If broken arm, wounded, disabled or infirm, write loss of leg, finger, blind, mute, deaf, insane, idiotic, etc. State the disability whatever it may be. |
| habits | if the person admitted never uses malt or spirituous liquors write A for abstinent; if he uses malt or spirituous liquors but never becomes intoxicated write T for temperate, if he occasionally becomes intoxicated or indulges to excess, write I for intemperate; if he is frequently intoxicated and becomes so whenever or wherever he has the opportunity write D for drunkard. |
| property | in this column record the property brought in the almshouse with or upon the person admitted |
| Authority for Admission | enter the name of the person at whose request or by whose order the inmate was admitted |
| Supposed Cause of Pauperism | such as intemperance, insanity, idiocy, blindness, broken leg, orphanage, bastardy, etc. |