Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERMAKRIAGES OF THE DEAF 12. SOUTH CAEOLINA INSTITUTION. 'I think the intermarriage of the congenital deaf tends strongly towards an increase of the deaf as a class. See no special reason why a congenital deaf-mute should not marry another deaf person, so from disease or other cause. I send accompanying statement of a family living near here :— _ ' Eobert P. Eogers, a deaf-mute, having one brother and two sisters deaf, of Freeport, Maine, married Sarah Holmes, a deaf lady of S.O., having one deaf brother. This marriage resulted m a family of five children, three girls and two boys, all deaf. ' 1.^ The eldest of these, Jane, married a deaf man; they have five children, four deaf and one jprohably semi-deaf. ' 2. The second, William H., married a deaf lady; they have two children, both deaf ' 3. The third, David S., married a deaf lady; no children. ' 4. The fourth, Laura A., married a deaf man (not congenital); they have two children, both can hear. ' 5. The fifth, Clara A., married a deaf man (am not certain if congenital or not) ; one child, can hear. 'N.B. All of above-mentioned are congenital deaf-mutes, except those designated otherwise. ' Newton F. Walker, Superintendent* 13. MISSOURI INSTITUTION. James N. Tate, Principal, expresses no opinion upon this question. 14. LOUISIANA INSTITUTION, John Jastremskij Superintendent. No reply received to datej June 2, 1888. 15. WISCONSIN SCHOOL. ' In considering the welfare and social life of the deaf, t Would advise, first, celibacy; but if nothing short of the married