Show REPORT ON TH THE THEA A DEAF DAf AND BUND BLIND p Enormous Total of Persons So Afflicted in the United States V SOME SOM E OF THE CAUSES GIVEN GI VEN t p EXCELLENT WORK DONE IN THE SCHOOLS Washington July 8 About one person In every 1200 was blind and one in every persons was deaf in the United States in n 1900 according to a special census census re report report report port on the blind and deaf deat bulletin just issued by the census bureau The inquiry was conducted under the direction of Dr Alexander Graham Bell who determined 4 the scope of the investigation and wrote the text of the report on the deaf 1 The total number of blind in the United I States In 1300 was of whom 3 were totally blind and partially blind bUnd These figures however the report says cannot annot be only considered as the min minimum minimum mm as an unknown proportion of the blind were not located by the enumerators ors Of the total blind bUnd were males and 77 9 females The blindness is chiefly chIen a defect detect of adult life Ufe almost 65 63 per cent of ot the blind becoming so after 20 years of age About of ot the total number of ot blind were born so The number numb r of 0 f blind per 1000 of population was vas greater among the negroes than whites and greater among the whites than among the na native native native tive whites K N parents Were Cousins In about ab ut t 5 per cent of the cases of blindness reported the parents of ot the blind we were e cousins Of Ot the blind whose I parents who were so related 25 per cent were congenitally blind while among the blind whose parents were not cousins the proportion congenitally blind was 68 per percent percent percent cent Of or the blind 10 IG per cent were w re en engaged engaged engaged in some gainful occupation The percentage of ot persons engaged In professional pursuits trade and trans transportation transportation transportation and in manufacturing and me mechanical mechanical industries are ac larger among tho the totally blind than among the general population in the North Deafness on on he whole the report says J Is more common In the northern part of the United States than in the southern arid there are more deaf males than fe Ce females females males Total number of deaf In the United States Is given as of whom were totally deaf and partially deaf deat From the latter classes are elim eliminated mated those merely hard of hearing The census report of Qt 1890 gave the num number number ber her of persons as deaf as and the rI opinion is accepted that the returns of 00 are undoubtedly excessive while those of 1500 1900 are deficient Of the totally deaf 55 per cent were males Negroes constitute per cent of the general population and only 52 per cent of the deaf leaf That the negroes seem less sus susceptible susceptible susceptible to deafness than the whites the report says sars is particularly due in part to less complete reports from the negro deaf Schools Doing Good Work or Of the totally deaf deal 91 per cent were so sofrom sofrom sofrom from childhood under 20 21 years of age and 36 3 per pel cent from birth Of the persons returned as deaf were able to speak well imperfectly and the remainder not at all The report presents figures to show that the schools for the deaf are doing excellent work in teach teaching k ing articulate speech When the subject i of deafness Is considered from the point J of view of consanguinity It would seem I o heredity has played an important part In 4 l producing congenital cong deafness Of these 38 3 5 per cent were gainfully employed as 1 with per cent among the male population Of or the deaf who were gainfully employed ed per cent were I found In occupations In which perfect or orcen 1 even cen partial hearing Is not essential |