Literal question
<span class="h3">Enumeration form for the 1880 census </span>
<br /><span class="ital">(all counties in Sweden, except for the cities Stockholm and Gothenburg)</span></p>
<p><span class="em">Column 4</span></p>
<p>Disability (mentally ill, blind, deaf-mute) ____
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">Col.4</span>: That only the following disabilities are to be recorded: mental illness, blindness and if a person is deaf-mute. When recording mental illness, "mentally ill since childhood" should be recorded for those whose mental illnesses were discovered already in their childhood. Those who have a periodic or intermittent illness should be recorded as mentally ill. Regarding "blindness" it should be observed that also small children should be recorded as having this disability. For others only those who are unable to orientate themselves with their eye sight (lacking locomotor vision) should be recorded as blind. Similarly persons who are only deaf should not be recorded as deaf-mute. It should be recorded if a disability is known to be hereditary or if it is shared by close relatives.
<br />That in column 4 it should for foreign citizens, living in the parish, be recorded as accurately as possible to which foreign power the person is subject. Recording names such as "Germany", ?The German Empire? or "Austria" is not sufficient, instead a state should be recorded, for example Prussia, The kingdom of Saxony, Hamburg, Bavaria, Hungary etcetera. It should be observed that if a note about nationality is missing it is assumed that the person is a Swedish citizen. A note should however be made if a person has become a Swedish citizen but has a birth place which can lead to believe that the person has a foreign nationality.
<br />That for every Swedish citizen who belongs to a foreign ethnicity a note should be made in column 4 using the words Finn, Sami, Roma etcetera. It is to some extent possible to determine the ethnicity from the language commonly used in the household. For the Sami population it is of special interest to record their different forms of trade (for example mountain Sami, forest Sami, fishing Sami etcetera). This should be recorded in column 3.
<br />That for those persons living in the parish and have a foreign religious belief, and not belong to a denomination who independently report population statistics to Statistics Sweden, the foreign faith should be recorded in column 4. In the same column "not baptized" should be noted for those children who, for confessional reasons, haven't been baptized within the Swedish church. For persons having a foreign faith it should be observed that according to 8 in the government decree of the 31st of October 1873 these people should be recorded in the catechetical register. The list of them should be included at the end of the extracts, but before the final summation so they won't be excluded from the summation of the population for the parish and the country.
<br />That for those persons who are recorded in the catechetical register but are known to be living outside the parish a notification using the word "absent" should be made in column 4.
