At head of title: Department of commerce. Herbert Hoover, secretary. Bureau of the census. W.M. Steuart, director.
This is the fifth federal census of institutions for children, such a census having been taken for the first time in 1880. Prepared under the supervision of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population, assisted by Mary W. Dillenback, Corinne T. Nall and Edith Eaton. cf. p. 1.
Previous censuses of institutional population chiefly concerned paupers in almshouses.