An account of the School for the Indigent Blind, in St. George's-Fields, Surrey. Instituted 1799. Containing the present state of the school, with the laws and regulations ... to which are annexed, rules for the election of objects, and a list of the subscribers.

  • Royal School for the Blind (Leatherhead, England)
Date:
1814
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Credit: An account of the School for the Indigent Blind, in St. George's-Fields, Surrey. Instituted 1799. Containing the present state of the school, with the laws and regulations ... to which are annexed, rules for the election of objects, and a list of the subscribers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but persons, who may wish to recommend scholars of' this description, are requested to take notice, that the Committee are obliged to be particularly strict, by their inquiries into their character and former habits of life, while they are thus employed in the same workshops with the other pupils, as the care of this Institution, extends as well to the moral and religious principles of those admitted into the School, as to their skill in manufacture. Of the Pupils admitted into the School. The benefits of this Institution are extended to the blind of both sexes, who, when admitted, are clothed, boarded, lodged, and instructed. It was stated, in a former publication, that the Committee would prefer pupils between the ages of twelve and eighteen, having observed such to derive most benefit from the instruc¬ tion they receive. Upon further experience, all objects under twelve, are now deemed absolutely inadmissible 5 but no age above eighteen is considered as a disqualification, while the strength remains unimpaired, and the fingers are- flexible. It is proper also to observe here, that cases of extreme indigence are not those, in which admission into this School is likely to be of most use, for when the pupil is dismissed, the value of the instruction he has received, must entirely depend upon the means he may possess of putting in practice the art in which he has been instructed, and unless his friends shall be in a condition to furnish him with a con¬ stant supply of materials for the regular exercise of the skill he may have acquired, the Society will have taught, and he will have learned, to very little purpose.