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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    f-J-f Persons applying for admission into the School for the Indigent Blind, are desired to observe, that the object of the Institution is not to provide for the permanent sup¬ port of those taken under its protection, but “ to teach them the means of gaining a livelihood for themselves as soon, therefore, as they shall have received all the instruction of which they appear to be capable, they will be dismissed, to make room for other scholars. *** The Committee meet on the second Thursday of every month, at the St. Paul’s Coffee-house, St. Paul’s Church-yard, at Twelve O’clock PRECISELY.