Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-30
superintemdent's Report.

To Honorable Board Directors.
GENTLEMEN: It is both pleasure and duty
Tor me at this time to present to you this, the
sixteenth annual report of the Minnesota State
institution for the education of the deaf and
dumb and the blind. Although you are al
ready more or less intimately acquainted with
the internal relations of both departments of
the institution and the work accomplished, yet
for the benefit OF others and in conformity
with we'll established usage and the require
ments of law, permanent record of the main
features of the years work is quite essential
to correct understanding of what
is accomplished, and a proper comparison of
one years work with another.
The whole number of pupils in attendance
in both departments during the year has been
i29. One hundred and eight of these-72 males
and 81 females-have been connected with the
deaf mute departments and ALP males and
8 females-members OF the blind department..
Concerning the latter, YOU will learn from
Prof. Dow, in another part of the report.
HEALTH AND HYGIENE.
During the year the health of the pupils has
been excellent. They have been exempt from
epidemic influences and severe sickness, ex-
cept in single case of diphtheria. Christian
s. Cole, aged IA years, died at his home Sept.
81, 1878.
DEAF MUTE GRADUATES.
James L. Smith, Hebron, Fillmore county;
Marshal O. Robert, North Branch, Chisago
county; Arson r. Spear, Minneapolis, Henne-
pin county; Theodore N. Ellis, Wykoff, Fill
more county; julius Wallner, Wheeling Rice
county; Emma Schneider, Albert Lea, Free
born county. Four Of the graduates were
members Of the class articulation, and have
been connected with the school from three to
seven years. They are semi-mutes of more
than ordinary ability, and their success in
lip-reading and articulation has been quite
marked. All the graduates are doing we'll as
far as heard from. One is in college at Wash
ington, three are working at their trades, and
the rest are at home with their parents.
ADMISSIONS.
Bjorlee, Johan l.. Albert Lea, Freeborn coun-
ty; Bjorlee Syver E.. Albert Lea, Freeborn
county; Henderson, George ". Faribault, Rice
county; Hanson, Olof, Willmar, Kandiyohi
county; Hanson, John, Rushford, Fillmore
county; johnson, Sarah c., New Ulm, Brown
county; Luckins, Edwin, Albert Lea Free
born county; Meade, Jonu, Belle PLANE, Scott
county; Rand, Mary E.. Claremont, Olmsted
county; Shanisey, John Fred Plaiuview, Wa
bashaw county; 5terud, Helen NJ, Mazeppa
Wabasha county; Wolff Henry, Minneapolis,
Hennepin county
Several letters of admission have been granted,
but applicants have failed to appear for want
of funds to pay ordinary expenses. The hard
times and short crops in some portions of the
Stale account Tor the nOn-appearance OF Jnose
who have made application and have failed to
carry out their intentions. Something ought
to be done by the State OF counties to enable
these children to come to the institution be-
fore they are too old to be educated.
The average age of chose admitted is almost
IL, the youngest TO- and the oldest 16. In one
instance two brothers are from the same fam
lily. and in another family, having four deaf
and dumb children, two sons and two daught.
ers, three are in school and the other is soon tc
join them. In still another family, of two
other will probably come next year. In each
Of these families the children are congenitally
deaf, aud no cause can be assigned unless, as is
true in instance, consanguinity in parents
ean't be called cause of deaf-dumbness. Con.