The aims and claims of the British and Foreign Blind Association, founded 1868, incorporated 1902.

  • British and Foreign Blind Association.
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: The aims and claims of the British and Foreign Blind Association, founded 1868, incorporated 1902. 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.

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    of specimen sheets of the embossed diagrams in these volumes will show the care and accuracy needed in their preparation. Of the five embossed magazines issued by the Association at less than cost price, two (The Braille Literary Journal and The Braille Musical Magazine) are devoted to higher education. MUSIC. Special attention is devoted to the publication of music in the Braille type, both for recreative purposes and to enable blind musicians to earn a livelihood as organists, teachers of music, etc. EMPLOYMENT. Although not primarily a workshop for the blind, the Association employs sixty-four blind persons as stereotypists, bookbinders, copyists, shorthand-typists, etc. Continuous efforts are made to open up new fields of work, and through the labours of the Association many have found remunerative employment. Articles on such subjects as knitting, crochet, shoe- mending, poultry-farming, gardening, etc., have been published to encourage home industries, and these efforts have been most successful, while works on Physiology and Massage have been issued for the benefit of the increasing numbers of blind men and women who practise Massage. Through its Secretary-General the Association is repre- sented on the National Committee for the Employment of the Blind, and the Federation Board of the Workshops for the Blind of London. The Association takes a prominent part in all questions connected with the technical training and employment of the blind.