| Show Of BLIND BUND One Out of Every 1 1200 PerSons Persons Persons Per Per- sons Sightless Says Census Bureau Washington July 8 S. The The proportion proportion tion lion of blind In the United States Isone is isone one In every 1200 of population and amid the totally deaf one In every per per- sons These figures have just been prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared by the census bureau Among the Hie total number num of leaf dear 2772 were also blind and 2 dumb dum Ill lii the census of or 1890 there here sero 1935 deaf deaC persons person per million of or population Of Or the total number numer of blind lInd per cent were males and per ei cent were cro females About 55 65 per cent of the blind re reported re- re ported were ere totally and about aboul 45 15 pel pel- cent partially About 56 per cent of the blind became became be be- came so after aCter twenty years of or ago age and only a a. little more mor than 30 percent per percent percent cent before 20 O years The number of or blind per of oC population was greater among negroes than among whites whiles and greater the foreign born whites than n among native nall whites whiles Negroes Hear Ilear Well cli Negroes constitute per cent cont of lie general population and only 32 52 per cent of the deaf Tho The percentage of persons engaged In professional proCessional pursuits trad trl and i transportation and in manufacturing and mechanical industries I is larger larer among the totally blind than them among the general population In these SP P. P three classes of or occupations the totally blind I I I show sho a higher en engaged than do the thc partially blind lInd It is shown that 25 5 of oC tho those e Lorn rii d deaf aC can cun speak and anti about out 62 per ncr rent lIt of or those becoming leaf deaf bev en th the ages of oC 5 and 10 can speak perfectly The most important causes s sf of f blindness blind ness weVe e cataract and operations congenital blindness old age and sore eyes ees or Of thie diseases which r ule ul ell l in deafness the most niost Important is Js ca ca- ca- ca Other diseases In the order or lr ol ot diminishing Importance were vero scarlet fever Cevel disease of or the car meningitis colds measles menles typhoid ver f-ver brain brair fever over Influenza and malarial fever ami quinine 1 |
