International reports of schools for the deaf made to the Volta Bureau, January 1901.

Date:
1902
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: International reports of schools for the deaf made to the Volta Bureau, January 1901. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    10/60 (page 8)
    Statement of SchooJAsw with the IlochcBtor, N. Y., Institute, under Dr. Z. F. Wostervelt’s care, where she taught before going to c| Other schools have holp<Hl, especdally the Knoxville, Tenn., school, as have the deaf of Great Britain, and s J. mention should be iiiadt' of the deaf ladies ol Edinburgh, Scotland. Utdp has also come from Switzeriaiufl not a little help has been given by the missionaries In China, who have either seen or heard of the school. 1 Income has not l>een sudlcient, though, to give the school a home free from debt, and the work is greatly rcta for lack of funds. Only boys liave Ix^en admitted for want of room, but several girls have asked for admifi and It la bop«>d soon to have a department for them. Eight thousand dollars ($8,000) are needed as soon aS Bible, and to raist? tills sum the circle of givers must lie greatly Increased. The school has lately come unS notice of Dr. Bell, who has kindly oIToivkI to make its needs known through the pages of the new magazine,! Association Review.” Some help has come from the Chinese, and more, has been promised. They look nd as little short of a miracle that the deaf can be taught, especially the speech work, which Is very interestin! satisfactory, as the Chinese language lends itself more readily to It, being more monosyllabic than moa! guagi«. Great help has been derived in this work from a kuowledgeof B<'ll’s Visible Speech, and In our Bel izlug we are testing the system proposed in Bell’s “ World-Engllsh,” and as soon as the plates for printinl received, we intend using only X..yon’s “ Phonetic Manual.” | A great work lies before the school. Not only do wo propose to give to the deaf of China the best mel for instruction, but the pure gospel too, and members from homes from which pupils are received wlllI under its evangelizing influence. The school is not connected with any mission, and is undenominational is intended to bo a work for the heathen deaf, supported largely by the deaf of Christian lands. Its iuterei! looked after by a local committee, composed of Rev. W. O. Elterich and Rev. Geo. Cornwell, of the AmJ Presbyterian Mission, and Mr. Win. Russell, of the Scotch China Inland Mission. This committee is uotl responsible for the school financially, It Is hoped that a committee will soon lie formed in America thal help liear the resixiuslbllity. I (2) This is the only school for the deaf in Annan. The founder died in 1895. Signs can solely l>e uscil is impossible to apply the oral method to the Annan language. None of the deaf-mutes admitted to this ! pay hoard; the mission provides for them. | (3) All pupils are Chinese, and one is deaf, dumb, and blind. | Note.—India. (1) The Bombay Institution for Deaf-Mutes is maintained by a contribution of lil (liundred), paid in quarterly from the government; a contribution monthly of Rs. 150 from the Bombay ■' clpallty, and by subscriptions from the public. Owing to insufllclency of funds the Committee of Slanagw' have not Iwen in a position to purchase a house or building for the institution up to the present, and rei»- all along been i>aid for the building utilized for the purposes of the institution. Owing to the same caiF attempt has hitherto been made to Introiiuce the teaching of the different trades, and there is no section fl* training of deaf-mute female children. The direct patron of the institute is the R. C. Archbishop of Bo* his excellency, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency, and a few European and native gentlemen lieing la- ary patrons. A great many pupils have, since its establishment in 1885, jussetl through the institution, at* on the whole, doing fairly well either as draughtsmen, lithographers, printers, or otherwise. | (2) We have ha<l applications for receiving little children as boarders, but we have been painfully* lielled to refuse them owing to want of accommodation and of a sufflclently large com]>onnd for the* ones to play in. This is a pressing want; it considerably hinders the growth of the school. • ‘ * The* been a new departure in the method of teaching. A class of stiven is taught through the medium of signs, thel cli>al being of the opinion that they are too old to be taught by the oral method. The rest are all taught tol and to understand spoken language by watching the movements of the speaker’s lips, etc. • • • Drawii*. wood engraving have received usual attention. The want of a properly-trained lady to teach the girls am® boys was long felt. Accordingly a young la<ly. Miss Adeline Das Shaw, • • * will, after a year’s train!® passing an examination, be entitled to an appointment as a teacher. The government and the corporation! our principal subscribers, are represented on the Executive Board by the Inspector of fk-hools, P. C., an® municipal commissioner. The Income of the school for eleven montlis past was Us. 4,909-7-4. The buB fund, kept altogether separate, shows Rs. 18,681-4-9. or about one-third of the amount needed for the puB Their success in the past encourage, the members of the committee to appeal for further help. B' (3) Imagine yourselves without speech and hearing, supposed to bo possessed by an evil spirit, u® neglected and uncared for by your relatives, and you may see a picture of the condition of the 200,000 del® dumb in India. I During the late famine many such children were cast away by their parents and picked up and cared ® various mission orphanages; but they could not be educated among the other children. I This little school was commenced through two catechists bringing their children to me, as they co®: longer keep them in heathen villages where they were working, the heathen people saying they were pos®- by devils. I put them into my industrial school, and when others were brought me the need of the de® dumb came before me, and I wrote up to ask the Madras government what was being done for them an® the numbers, and was surprised to And 2(K),000 In India, and but two small schools in Bombay and Calcutt® that in my presldenc^of Madras, for the 30,000 deaf and dumb found in Inst census, nothing was being do® . class was started and I began on a method of my own. which has answered well so far, and the childre^B gone in for government examinations much as the other schools. Now that it is established. I am most ai®