Year: 1878

In estimating the necessary to the support of
the Institution last year, allowance for fur
nshing and repairing which the last two wears
heavy draft upon its fAA ft g = IS


1t is the hundred dollars was appropri
ated last session building and make
such other needfa REPAIRS without which have
been habitabe another year sum- however does not
all the other repairs during the
current The truth is the buildings DID, of
them in decaying condition, requiring constant
repair Many household articles too, long use we have
been compelled replace In the last twelve months every
sleeping apartment in the building has been supplied new
mattresses, Sheets pillows and pillow slips, as
quite number of blankets and comfortss sd asts W Ea


The shop which, for long me without the necessary
appliances to has been fully supplied
All this has been done from the fund appropriated for
port of the Institution The building when the three who
have applied reach here, will be FULL pupils be
received Other applicants pressing for Can
the State afford to make further provision for those who
still unproyided for? it even-handed Justice
would demand this should placed upon the
footing with the two other benevolent Institutions of the
State. do to draw comparison between the
Lunatic Asylum and this Thatis noble monument to the
humanity and iberality of the people of the State,
doubtless, it will always it should, be literally provided


for There be good reason, however why distinction
should be made between this and the Institution for the deaf
mutes w bile the blind class far in
building provided for
ity of that for the blind Again it fact not easily
years past appropriations Institution
haveaway been liberal scale than for the Blind;
and yet be demonstrated that the education of the blind
expensive do charge that the deaf
received than they require than they justly
made for the blind 1t be otherwise than
that the education of class dependent the blind should



instrucng the blind teachers necessarily required
The grades ordinary school, from the lowest
primary the highest classes have to be observed with
paravely smaller number Of pupils With blackboard
demonstrate illustrate twenty deamutes for
instance be taught almost glance while requires
hour for many blind by to feel out and
hend If be formed mountain river pointed
upon raised map such the blind compelled to
of class of twenty instructed by
one so that each individual pupil constitutes separate class
taught in succession An Institution for the blind has
three distinct departments each of which has to be provided
great The literary department should
furnished with embossed books gloves sates
which all very expensive. s7sfa


A Bible for instance, cannot purchased for less than
twenty dollars An outline Of the United States
fifty dollars slate for the blind from three FIVE dollars
musical department must be supplied with pianos
other instruments making the of furnishing this
department greater than the first The mechanical,
though expensive the first named should be
piled with machines, presses, tools and material Costly
all these appliances they absolutely
for the proper instruction of the blind. .f -5rtz g


append here table which will show the average of
educating the blind: q