Geographic Distribution of Cases Received, Fiscal Year 1973

p. 227. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the table continues past the West Virginia row (the South Atlantic division subtotal and all later divisions are not on this image), and no footnote block is visible, so `footnotes` is empty even though markers ^1 (in the caption) and ^2 (on the stub heading) are printed. Column-heading wording as printed with end-of-line hyphens: "Union deau-thori-zation cases", "Amendment of certi-fica-tion cases", "Unit clari-fica-tion cases"; joined here. The scan is faint on a few marks: in the West Virginia row the CD cell is printed as "- 7" (a stray dash/speck before the digit); transcribed as 7, which is consistent with the row's own C-case total (172+66+12+7+0+2 = 259). Similarly a stray tick appears beside New Jersey UD (22), Illinois All R (680) and West North Central CP (33); these were read as plain numbers. All row sums (CA..CP = All C cases; All C + All R + UD + AC + UC = All cases) and the column sums for each division subtotal check out, which supports the digit readings.

p. 228. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 16 cells per row (stub + 15 numeric columns), counted from the column rules; the table begins on the preceding page (the South Atlantic group starts there, so only its last four states appear here and its subtotal line covers states not shown). Doubtful cell: "Virgin Islands", column 12 (the column whose Outlying Areas subtotal is 5 and whose grand total is 1,144). The glyph reads as 5 in every pass, but every other column in this crop foots exactly, and here Puerto Rico 5 + Virgin Islands 5 would give 10 against a printed Outlying Areas subtotal of 5; the printed subtotal is consistent with a Virgin Islands value of 0. Transcribed as seen (5), uncorrected — treat this one cell as unreliable. The Virgin Islands entries in the last columns are also the faintest on the page; the rightmost cell (column 15) is recorded as 0 but could be blank in the original. Checked arithmetic: the East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, Pacific and Outlying Areas subtotals reproduce the member rows exactly in all 15 columns (the single exception being the Virgin Islands cell noted above), which supports the column alignment throughout. Scanning specks, not footnote markers or digits, and excluded from the cells: a tick before Georgia's 214 (col 10); a dot before West South Central's 724 (col 10); a mark after Oregon's 176 (col 10); a tick before Washington's 20 (col 8); stray marks in the Texas, California, Alaska and Pacific rows and a pen-like stroke above the East South Central line in the stub area. Guam's column 5 zero and Hawaii's column 5 value (17) are lightly inked but legible. Footnote 2 is printed with scanner-degraded letterforms ("accoiding" for "according"); rendered as the intended word. Abbreviation periods in "U S Department of Commerce" do not resolve in the scan and are transcribed as printed.