Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America.

Date:
1888
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    state will satisfy, then I would advise the deaf to marry the deaf, believing peace, happiness, and prosperity will thereby be promoted, and the probabilities of deaf offspring but slightly increased. ^ _^ SwiLER, SuiJerintendent' 16. MICHIGAI^ SCHOOL. ' All that can be said is very speculative. Very few deaf- mutes in my own school have deaf parents. The proportion is so small that it does not go far, in my opinion, to establish the theory that deaf-mute marriages tended to produce a deaf-mute offspring. , ' M. T. Gass, S'UiJenntendent. 17. MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTION. ' I know a great many married deaf-mutes. I do not know of a deaf-mute couple who have deaf-mute children. I know a deaf man who married a hearing and speaking lady ; they have a deaf-mute daughter. I have not been convinced that deafness is hereditary. ' J. R. DoBYNS, Superintendent.' 18. IOWA INSTITUTION. H. W. Rothert, Superintendent. No reply to circular letter received to date, June 2, 1888. 19. TEXAS ASYLUM. ' The parents of but one of our children are both deaf. There is another, however, whose father is a mute, the mother being hearing and speaking. Out of a total of 158, 40 have deaf relatives. There are 36 instances where such relations are of the same generation, being sisters and brothers and cousins; one