Mechanische bevolkingsboekhouding

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The population register of the municipality of Haarlem has been mechanised. Information from the register will therefore become available more quickly. In this news item images of the department. Civil Registry and shots of the actual operation of the new system using the fictitious example that a selection must be made from all those eligible to vote. SHOTS: - Int. town hall, department. At the other side of the counter the civil servants are working: they are talking to the people and searching in huge card indexes for personal cards; - a personal card of Gerard Hendrik van den Berg; - selection of voters old style: all the voter cards are removed from the card indexes; a battery of civil servants sits at tables behind typewriters and manually processes all the cards one by one; - typists use punching machines to transfer the data on the voter cards to small metal plates; - cu metal plate with data of Gerard Hendrik van den Berg; - selection of voters new style: a civil servant puts a tray of metal plates in a sorting machine and sets the sorting key by inserting wires on a pitch; the sorting machine quickly selects all the eligible voters and prints their address bands; - the tray of metal plates is stored in a drawer system.

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