Deafmutism and the education of deaf mutes by lipreading and articulation / Arthur Hartmann; translated and enlarged by J.P. Cassells.

  • Hartmann, Arthur.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Deafmutism and the education of deaf mutes by lipreading and articulation / Arthur Hartmann; translated and enlarged by J.P. Cassells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the other hand, with the exception of the Irish statistics, they extend only over small districts. In order to supply this want, I suggested a more extensive and uniform collection, which could have been made in conjunction with the census of 1st December, 1880, and would have extended over the greater portion of Germany. In this manner many questions still unsolved might have been immediately decided, while now, by the dissipation of energy involved in the work, only individual collections can be furnished. The plan of including in the census an enumeration of all those in the German Empire suffering from any defect failed owing to the unwillingness of the statisticians. In the Otological Section of the Natural Science Congress in Baden-Baden, I moved that it was desirable that, in connection with the census of 1st December, 1880, an enumeration of all the deaf-mutes in the German Empire should take place, and this motion was unanimously adopted, and sent to the Statistical Department of the Empire. A similar memorial was presented to the Imperial Statistical Bureau. by the Society of German Lunacy Physicians with regard to the enumeration of those suffering from mental affections. I take the liberty of com- municating here the substance of the reply of the Imperial Statistical Bureau, dated 27th October, 1879, and based upon the resolutions passed at a conference of the directors of the German Statistical Department:— Against such a combination (i.e., the enumeration in a general census of those suffering from defects) it has, however, been urged that, hi ascertaining the extent of these defects by means of the general census, the results have always proved to be incomplete and inaccurate, as has been repeatedly shown by com- parison of the results of a census with those of special compila- tions ; and that, considering the comparatively small number so affected, it would not be right to put those questions at a general census. Against the suggestion of making use of the census-material, by drawing up from it lists of the names of those affected, to be