The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-12
4 NOBLE WORK.
TIE STATES CARE OF TIE DEAF,
DUMB AND BLIND.

ISm > AMI OE!ISO'
An Iaterss,iog Report Of Superintendent
NE. waiksr, Which G.vss Some Idea OF
this Grane yyo-k Being Done al Ccial
Springs.
The report OF Superintendent n. T.
Walker, Of the State Deaf, Dumb and
Blind Institution at Cedar Springs is
in the hands O; the State printer.
The report is iHll Of information about
this class Of the States Unfo::ttGSstes.
The report says:
One hundred ard seventy nine pu-
pills have hsen enrolled during the
year. It gives me great pleasure to
state that with the above number CT
pupils in attendaaca no death has &C.
cured and net a single case CT serious
illness. As stated in the annual re
port Of 1895: I'VE feel that this is
largely dus to the following causes:
The healtbfulness Of our location, the
care il providing tie proper diet,
regulation requiring daily outdoor
exerci:e, regU!ar bathing, the perfect
drainage OF the ground ard we'll
ventilated character of the buildings" :"
7 have had the cordial and earnest
support Of corps OF teachers and OF
fcers and hence am able to report a
year CT successful work. With your
consent l visited during the year sew.
eral OF the largest and best equipped
schools for the blind and deaf in the
United States. When we remember
thst it is only about three quarters OF 6
century siace the first school Of the
kind Bas established in this country,
it is astonishing how rapidly the edH-
cstion CT these classes has advanced.
South Carolina was tha 18th Stale to
enter upon this work, &ad with no de-
sire fos self or family laudetio0, an
free to say that our State has no
reason to be ashamed OF her standing
on this lins OF education. Of course,
Our school does not equal IL numbers
or il It's plant some Of the schools OF
larger and weather. States, hut IN the
preparation OF these classes for useful
and happy citizens we have no reason
10 feel that cur work does not compare
:favora5ly with the best Of them.
Still I SAT- much on my visit to these
schools that tended 10 give me manZ
useful ard practical hints for the vel
fare and progress OF this school. TEe
hearty Welcome accorded me st these
schools and the untrammelled opportu
rity for careful investigation and ex'
animation Of tie work being 6oae was
quite gratifying to ne. Ifound few
men still in the profession who were
friends and colleagues OF my father
almost halfa century age.
Most OF the schools for the deaf, like
ours, have for the psst decade Or two
been giving special attention to the
teaching of articulation and lip read
ing. We began this work or rather
employed teacher for this special
work, in 1880 and have had satisfac,
tory results.
Mes: semi-deaf children and quite 8
percentage OF those totally deaf can be
taught to speak to greater or less ex
tent and to read language from the
lips OF others. The character OF the
work we have done in this line was
fully tested during the past term. Two
girls, totally deaf, were at the begin
ming of the session placed in s. class Of
blind pupils and continued as members
of said class until the end of the sum
mer term. Under careful and accu
rate system of marking these two dea!
girls stood, respectively, second anc
third, in class of u. The placing o.
these deaf pupils in a class with bllnc
children did rot in any wsy tend tc
retard the advancement Of that class
This CON bining Of deaf and blind cnil
dren in the same class for recitation
hss never, so far IS l am informed
heretofore besn attempted in thu
United States. Itwss not done in TIL
instance by US for the special advan
tage of either the deaf or blind chill
| idr5n, but rather asan experiment ant
TO economic our teaching force.
As stated above 179 pupils, represent
| ing 80 counties have bsen admitted
during the year ss follows: Deaf, l2O
blind SO. Oae hundred and forty iv
of this number are present at this data
The average attsr darce has besn 142
| The last legislature appropriated 10
Isupport and electric light plant tn
sum of s21, 900 and $3.50 for repairs
| AS shoan by the financial statemen
| 9e have paid for support and eIectrl
light plant the sum Of so, ,956 50; TO
lrepairs $172.23. Our per capita TO
isupport, which includes all running
lexpense has been s13O.H. The aver
iaee cost per capita for support IN 3
lschools for the deaf in the United State
| for last year was $685. The sbov
Iststement includes schools II all part
Of the United States.
For the sum OF 81, 3S6.27 We erecte
boiler. engine and dynamo rooms an
Installed 40 power boiler and an uE
! to-date engine and dynamo sutiicien
Ito light cur building and yard. Tn
Eentire plant was carefully examined b
! the expert electrician of the Southeas
| ern Tariff association and approved b
| him. Ithas proven entirely satisfat
| tory since starting upon Oc:oeec last
! 4 portion Of the tuad for repairs "a
| been expended for new garden fence
.Elayi@g floor CT front porch with tllE
! etc. The balance OF said appropriate
lis being expended for the erection OF
cow barn.
RECEIPTS.
From appropriation. ...... $50, ,OOO.C
iOtheT sources. wv (
balance on hand Jsn. l, '97. 5l4
}, SCI, ,s06.7
l Amorg the chief Items Of expend
lure we're: For salaries, S7,263 81