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Show BOARD Of TRUSTEES Of STATE SCHOOL MAKE REPORT The total of $149,000 is asked by the board of trustees of the Stuf-School Stuf-School for the Deaf and Blind In the annua report tiled in the office of Governor William ' pry yesterday. The board asks for a $3P,000 appropriation ap-propriation for a new heating plant at the school. A 'so if wants 200u with whicho to engage ;i teacher to travel through the state aiding and teaching the adul' blind who cannot be reached dtiierwi.'c. The report of Fran m. Driggs, superintendent, reveals rapid progress in th work of the school. It BbOWS that has been done for each student in i tie school and how each has been equipped to follow a uselul and profit prof-it .1 1 I r vocation, despite the handicaps placed on them by nature. Great progress is reported in the eaching of agriculture at the school and the success Ol the poultry farm operated by the pupils. Tne present enrollment Id tin-school tin-school is the greatest in its history. b Ing 164. On-, of the tables given in the report re-port shows that of 387 rases of deaf ness handled by the institution, ll'J were congenital, scarlet fever was responsible for sixty-five cases and spinal meningitis for fifty-six cases. Such diseases as whooping cought, measles, typhoid feer, pneumonia, en-are en-are d tonsils, severe colds diph-l theria Is grippe and similar ailments' were responsible for practically all the remaining ca8S8. Act dental and congenital causes tie Tor first place in the mattei of blindness, blind-ness, each causing twenty-two eases of blindness out of the eighty-six cases handled. Ten cases were ol unknown cause jud the usual Sis-eases Sis-eases were responsible for the others |
