From the London Daily News, Tuesday, May 27, 1851

SINGULAR CENSUS RETURN.-One of the constabulary enumerators (who, in
common with all others upon whose shoulders the task of filling the
census has been laid complains that they' are hardly worked and badly
paid) was much amused the other day by the return which a very
eccentric and proverbially social inhabitant of the village of
Whitehouse , two and a half miles from Belfast, had under the column
"Deaf and Dumb," The household of the statist consists merely of his
wife and himself, and their differences of opinion upon matters or
domestic economy are locally celebrated. The return (in the handwriting
of the head of the house) was this;-Husband, not deaf-wish to the Lord
he was. Wife/not dumb-wish ditto, ditto .-Belfast News Letter:


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Steve Hamerdinger
Director, Office of Deaf Services
ALDMHMR
100 North Union, Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 353-4701 (TTY)
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