The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-06
EDUCATION OF DEAF MUTES
Trustees of the Institute Submit Their
Annual Report to the Governor.
Increase Of so Per Cent. in the Floating Debt
Health Of the Children-Trades
They Are Taught.

Indiana Institution for the Education of
fhe Deaf and Dumb was submitted to the
Governor yesterday. The trustees COM
mend in high terms the management of
the superintendent. Richard o. johnson.
The General Assembly of 1891 made special
appropriation of BIZ. 500 for special improve
ments, to-wit: Electric light. bathrooms
and water-closets, boilers and boiler-house,
drainage, ice-house, cementing floors. ETC.:
also CO. 900 for the industrial department..
superintendent Johnson's report contains
these facts: Miss Frances E. Goode. for
eighteen years the principal of the Ian
guage work In the academic de-
partment, resigned to become mar
ried, and she was succeeded by Miss Auna
Hendricks; Miss Cora Coe, for four years
in charge of Grade b. resigned to accept
. position with the Kansas Institu-
ton for the Deaf. and she was
succeeded by Miss Eva Heiser.
In referring to the department during the
obeyed the rules of the institution. have
gwen faithful study TO their lessons and
made q steady advancement in every way.
They have organized among themselves
literary societies, and found pleasure as
well as Improvement in the conduct or
them. They have taken great interest IN
the course OF lectures delivered during the
year. and have proited thereby. They
have Ia ken real interest in the conduct of
the institution, and each one has striven TO
do his part well. The health of the insti-
tuition has been good. and no trouble has
been experienced from grip or feyers. Two
deaths occurred among the pupils. both
last March. The number admitted during
the year was: Boys, $50; girls. 162; total.
342. Number discharged: Boys. 20; girls,
Is; total. 4S. Number In attendance at end
Of d. H. ~e.Ia 1Ors nf ~
New pupils received during year: Boys. Is:
girls. 20. The causes OF discharge during
the year were as follows: Graduation, Is;
expiration Of time, IL; for serious cause. z;
death, 2; sickness. 2: f~eeble-minded, 4; re-
quest. 2; epilepsy. !.
Regarding non-attendance the superin-
tendent says: The evil of nom attendance
still remains. Those pupils who remain at
tending the school. do themselves q gross
Injustice and show themselves to be I'M
grateful to the State, which gladly provides
al educstion for them. absolutely free. If
they will but come. In too many cases IN
competent opinions and idle whims of the
child control the parents, who consent to
the absence Pupils have been received
from eighty-three of the nInety-two conn
representation being Benton. Crawford.
Fayette, Orange. Owen. Ripley, Scstt.
Srarke and Union. Under the head or
school work this information IS given:
a tu6 beginning OF Inc SCHOOL ycBt III
1890 q new course of study was arranged;
she school period was re~-arranged into five
primary. two intermediate and three
academic grades, each grade taking one
year; the manner of grading was changed.
as was also the manner of teaching; the
four upper grades were provided with four
teachers, each on special subjects, the
classes rotating from one teacher TO
school tae preceding June. and who were
entitled TO return. IA were denied advance
mens because of not meriting it-in short o
complete revolution In school work took
place. and we anxiously looked for
ward for results at the end OF tho
school year. seven months OF which came
into the fiscal year just closed. We have
not been disappointed. Close and faithful
attention was given to the work by teach
ers. who had much to do because of the
change. Textbooks during the first three
years being done away with. original work
had To be provided by them. History and
geography took the form OF evolution, and
began In original work by the teachers.
who. taking the institution as q starting
place. worked outward until the text
book was reached. Our course OF study
was termed by competent critics as
rather high for our classes, but the
pupils in the main mastered it. as is shown
By their better averages than under the
old system."
The school publishes q magazine fort
nightly, called The School AID. which has
been of great assistance in helping the
pupils in their work.
The work in the industrial department.
goes on satisfactorily. The trades taught
and the number of years occupied III each
Years Course.
Carpentry and cabinet-making.------.
Printing Composition, press-work, binding
chair Gaming
COOKING.
Dressmaflng-Cutting fitting, draping...-....2
asr1rinesI.,
Certain boys are also assigned to the
bakc-shop. Kitchen, carpenter-shop and
farm. Boys not assigned To regular trade
courses and other places mentioned are re-
quired to do police duty around buildings
and grounds.
The question what to do with feeble
minded children who are also deaf has long
been q question with this institution, as it
has with them all over the land. Appar.
emily having no place to go. falling between
this and the institution for predetermined
children. we have tried to AXE them in and
do what we could. but. constituted as this
school Is. which is for those too deaf to be
educated In the common schools" we have
not been prepared to do by them as We
should. What to do with them has now
probably been settled. John e.. Blake, SUI
p~rinteDdent of the School for Feeble
minded Children. p~ropounded the inquiry
opinion that Predetermined children who
are also deaf should be received into the
school for feeble-minded.
Many improvements have been made
during the year. of which the following
were the most Important: Electric-lIght
plant. 5000; bath and toilet-rooms, s., OC0:
boilers and boiler-house. $500; drainage,
81. 600; ice-house. $1,000: cement floors in
basement of school house. Sl.OO0. The total
expenditures of the institution during the
fiscal year just ended. Oct. 81. were di-
vided az follows: Salaries, s29. 523.2 "a; food
supplies. S13. $40. 20: clothing. bedding. etc.,
fl,1ss.sS: miscellaneous, $40. $50. ri; ordinary
repaifs. S2.0S9.6 Sc. Other statistics are: Value
of real estate and property belonging to
the institution Oct. 81. 1891. S577. 2Sl.01
liabilities. SS2i.57; value Of products of
farm and garden, s2.1765S; amount of money
received from sale of hides. tallow. etc.
and from any and oil other sources. and
paid State treasurer for collection. S214.53:
value of clothing. etc.. furnished pupils
during the year, the same returned to the
State Treasurer for collection. S975.5S;
amount Of maintenance received. SIS. 600,
of which all but S1.l4 was spent; received
for current expenses and repairs, S3.C0). of
which all but 81 cents was spent. Average
daily number of pupils present, 2Sl.l; net
per capita expense, S19l.42