"There are some damaged pages in the census enumerators' books. Some are torn, some have parts of the pages missing, some are damaged by water and staining, and some are missing completely. The worst census pages that I have ever seen were like dark brown paper bags with no handwriting on them. They had been damaged by water. The most common place for pages to be damaged (torn or stained) is at the end of a census piece book. In fact, most are! " http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/census/faded.html Stan Mapstone