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temperance ; disposition to save ; tendency towards a settled life or towards temporary or permanent emigration. Note, finally, principal traits characterizing intellectual development ; special facts relative to the education of the children ; attach- ment to tradition or tendency to innovations in the methods of work, in the relations of laborers to their employers, in civil and political institutions. (4) Physical constitution of members of the family; their state of habitual health. Hygiene in matters of baths, foods, drinks, clothing, dwelling, etc. Medical service. Occult practices, charms, etc. (5) Social consideration which the head of the family enjoys by reason of his personal qualities, his property, his trade, or his civil or military services. Rela- tions of the family with other families of the locality.

(6) Enumeration and value of properties possessed by the family : real estate, money, domestic animals, special materials of labor and industry. (7) Persons and institutions giving patron- age or aid in the locality. Benevolent and relief societies; communal aid; state aid. Enumeration of subventions and aids received from each of the preceding persons and institutions. (8) Labor performed by the workingman and his family for the profit of an employer or for mutual profit. Industries undertaken for the exclusive profit of the family : cultivation of fields, gardens, etc.; making of butter, cheese, etc.; washing of clothes; making of new clothes, ornaments, etc.; gathering of fuel.

(9) Distinctive features of the family diet ; mention of penury or of abundance. Nature of the foods which are the principal sustenance of the family. Manner of preparing and cooking these foods. Number of meals per day ; ordinary hour and dura- tion of each meal and manner of taking the meals. ( 10) Descrip- tion of habitation and its dependencies : materials of the house ; stories in the house ; interior arrangement ; number of rooms occupied and used by the family and their size ; bathroom and water-closet ; light, ventilation, and air ; yard and its size ; gen- eral cleanliness. Furniture: give detailed inventory of the fur- niture with some indication of the actual value of each piece. Give nature and value of the uu-nsils employed in cooking, wash-