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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    51. NOETHERN NEW YORK INSTITUTION. Henry 0. Rider, Superintendent. No reply to circular letter received up to date, June 2, 1888. 52. FLORIDA INSTITUTE. Park Terrell, Principal. A reply to circular letter was sent,, but through some unexplained delay in the mails it had not been received up to date, June 2, 1888. In a private note Mr. Terrell says : ' I have known of several cases of inherited deaf- ness. Two little boys at this school, the children of W. F. Pape, of Branson, Levy County, Florida. The father was born deaf, and the mother a semi-mute. Perhaps Dr. E. M. Gallaudet can give you further account of Mr. Pape, as he was at the college one or two years.' 53. WASHINGTON TERRITORY SCHOOL. James Watson, Director, expresses no opinion upon this question. 5L NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SCHOOL. ' My opinion is that to make any effort to secure the passage of a law to prohibit the intermarriage of the deaf would amount to a most tyrannical thing, but as the best way to put a stop to the increase of the deaf I would earnestly recommend the passage of a law to prohibit the intermarriages of blood cousins. 'R. B. Lawrence, Principal' 65. EVANSVILLE DEAF-MUTE SCHOOL, INDIANA. 'A deaf-mute in Iowa married a woman whose hearing was perfect, and had two children by her—one a deaf-mute son who