The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-09
blind AND DEAF
NUMBER \. II $4,000 1 0
One :iilsSE ] 200 Blind \. Z.
One in Every $50 Deaf il
1900.
PART PLAYED i: BY 3 &. A E: 1: |:
2. /. Il; AYED BY AERE I:
Deafness More Common in North
Than5in Interesting
Il. ... ss, I, ssssS u Statistics. n
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1BI ] PROSE-


IVA HTNGToN SJuly 8. "A bout one per-.
son lii every 4 200 was blind and one IN
every $50 persons was deaf In the United
States In 1900, according to- n special
census report on the blind and deaf In
tic United States In that year, Just issued
by the Census ONCE, Tho Inquiry was
conducted under the direction o. 4; DE-
Alexander Graham Boil, v ~
IA The total number OF blind in the United
states III 1900 was 81, 76s, 4 OF whom IS. 645y
were totally blind and 29,118 partially
blind or the8 blind, 81 ,O54 were males AMI
427, 100 females. Almost 65 per cent. 81
tic blind became blind after IA twenty
years OF age. 55j al H
About one-tenth OF tho total number
of blind were born 80. The runber5ot &
blind per LOCO or populat ton was greater
among the negroes han among aS the
whites. and greater among the foreign
born whites than among the native
whites. IN about five per cent. Of the
cases or blindness reported, the parents
iof the blind were cousins. OF the blind
whose parents were 30 related. " Is per
cent. were cong enitally BLING. while among
the blind whose parents were not coualns.
the proportion ,congenitally blind was only!
fGSl per cent or the blind Mt least ten
years OF age 20 per cent. were engaged
ms some gainfjil occupat ion.E The per-
fcentage OF persons engaged IN IN profess
sional pursu Its, " trade and TRANSPORTATION
and in manufacturing and mechanical
industries lis larger among the totally
blind than among the general II populat ton IN
@Nunbe Of the Deaf.
az Deafness on the whole he$report says.
Ia more common In the northern part OF
the United States than in the southern.
ana there are more dea { males than fe-
ma les. The to tai Nun ttsr,.:of deaf u the
United States ~ giYena 60 50. 2S7 OF whom
81, 426 were totally deaf and 61,s61 par
TALLY deaf. From the latter class. 4 l.ow '
ever, arc eliminated those merely hard
Of hearing. 8 s. 5ss;s ), 5'$ a sS$9 tf I'd 81
Tho census report OF 1880 gave the NUM-
Der OF persons deaf ms 121.l7s. and the
opinion is expressed that the returns for
500 Il are undoubtedly excessive while
those for 1000 are deficient. OF the to-
tally deaf, b2.5 per cent. were males.
Negroes constitute 1l8 per cent of the
general population, and only b.2 per cent.
of the deaf, V Il Z ssoes al NJ 81 H Isl
y That the B neg oes seem less susceptible
to deafness than the whites, the report OF
SAYS is probably due In part to less
complete returns for the negro deaf. Cf
the totally deaf, 81 per cent. were 50
from childhood (nnderS%20 years of age)
and sc per cent. from birth. OF the 89,2S7
persons returned as deaf. s., FOL were able
to speak we'll. 9,417 impcrfectly. and the
remainder not at al, Us
Part of Heredity, VI
IIercdity has played "a part in produce
ing congenital Deafness and the deaf
ness occurring in adult life; whereas.
L deafness occurring In early chill dhood,
| after birth and under the age OF FIVE, Is
probably Y osas large extent adventitious.
Of those at least ten years OF &c among
tho deof. ss5 per cent were painfully
employed, MS compared with 500 per
cent, among the general population.