It is my understanding that the mortality schedule is for the period from 1 June of the year preceding the census until 1 June of the year in which the census is taken (e.g. 1 June 1859 until 1 June 1860). Gwen Boucher Bill Gordon wrote: > > It was my tenuous understanding that the mortality > schedule comprised deaths in the year before the > census was taken and that it was compiled by the > census takers. If what you say is true, it implies > a second crew of mortality enumerators who would > have had to retrace the path of the census takers > six months later. Can you clarify? > > Bill Gordon