TABLE 87.-Summary of Statistics of Training Schools for Nurses for 1887-88.

TABLE MA, Natation of Training Schools for Nurses for 1887 RA,

San Francisco, Cal.....

Hospital for Children and Ban Franclaro FAR
Training Behool for Nursen

New Haven, Conn.

11

Washington, DC. (1400 1
MI, NW)

Connection Training Behool for Nursen
Washington Training Hehool for Nurses

1817

Mrs AH Westfall, matron

Chiengo,,,304 Honoré Bt.)

Illinois Training Rehool for Nurses (Coole
County Hosplint),

Jenbel A. Hampton

(n)

Indianapolle, Ind..........

Flower Mission Training School for Nurses

Miss Margaret Orr
Miss Mary A. Camp...
Mins Ida 1. Butlife...

CHAPTER XVII.

EDUCATION OF SPECIAL CLASSES

EDUCATION OF THE DEAF.

GENERAL REMARKS.

New institutions and buildings.—The Cathedral School for the Deaf at the dual institution for the colored at Austin, Tex., and Miss S. W lation class in New York City are the new institutions reported in opesz past year. The Cincinnati institution is under the control of the Ar nati, and is in part supported by him. The manual method of instruc at present, but the combined system is soon to be introduced. T Wyoming, reported last year as ready to begin work, has failed to resp from this Office. The Deaf-Mutes' Journal, a paper published in New Y for the statement that a Chicago merchant proposes to give $20,000 $2 lishment of an institution in which deaf-mutes shall receive suitable method of instruction to be adopted is not mentioned. A bill was State senate of Ohio by Mr. Mack, of Cincinnati, during the last sessult ture, to establish schools for deaf-mutes in the city school districts a Cleveland. Action was postponed until the next session.

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A home, the "Sarah Fuller Home for Little Children who cannot E cently established at West Medford, near Boston, Mass. The ora tion is employed. "It is not proposed to retain these children in the are old enough to go to the Horace Mann School, only to prepare them 17 utilize their earliest years before the organs of speech have lost the Another institution, known as the "Frentz School for the Dead year of existence at Oshkosh, Wis. The manual method is to be adigel stitution is supported by the State.

A private school, the "St. Mary's Institution for Deaf-Mutes" the year in St. Paul, Minn., but no report of its work has been rece The main building of the Missouri institution at Fulton was desig ruary last, and is being reconstructed on an improved plan.

The Pennsylvania oral school at Scranton will soon have accadice additional pupils, and the Legislature of Washington Territory has s for new buildings for the school at Vancouver.

Changes of the year.-The board of trustees of the Iowa institutta has placed the educational and business departments under separate heads. The system of double classes is abandoned, and the lengt creased by one hour spent in the school-room. The Cincinnat a part of the public school system of that city, and is governed by

tions.

Methods-By invitation of the "Royal Commission on the Find the etc., Dr. Alexander Graham Bell went over to England during the the commission information about American schools. A shon time Dr. bell sent a circular letter to the superintendents and prin Canadian schools for the deaf, asking for information as to meshes institutions, and for opinions on the various methods and of importance. The replies were collected together and publishe can schools reported the combined method: 16 purely oral: manua and I manual, oral, and combined; 48 schools report 22.305 pers) with 1.353 of this number articulation is used as the means a genitally deaf, or became deaf before two years of age.

Auricular instruction.-The attempt to cultivate and improv This method of instruction is rapidly growing in favor. Egres class of semi-deaf was organized in the Nebraska Institute ir the results proved satisfactory. The superintendent of this 19 jessor Bell's circular letter of inquiry, says: "We have site juhë

; of these, nine will leave school as hard-of-hearing speaking people, with perhaps reater degree of disadvantage from deafness than those who have become partially in adult life.

After eight years of experience in this work and of observation elsewhere, it is my of that at least 15 per cent. of our deaf-mute population are fit subjects for aural intion, and that a majority of these can be graduated as hard-of-hearing speaking le, and the condition of the remainder greatly elevated above that of the ordinary ...mute.

As to what takes place in a scientific point of view in aural work, my opinion is that me cases there is a development in the hearing power, as well as improvement due increased knowledge of spoken language. In the majority of cases I think it er to say that there is an improvement in both directions."

› regards the small class-room bell as the best means of testing the hearing power --pils, and thinks the ordinary flexible tube superior to the audiphone as an artifiaid, the value of the latter depending upon "the cause of deafness and condition e auditory nerve and of the teeth."

of. E. H. Currier, of the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, in reply to essor Bell's inquiries, says: "The work of developing the latent hearing of such pupils e find, upon careful examination, possess any appreciation of sound, has been caron in this institution for nearly two years with the most gratifying as well as the convincing results.

That the hearing power is increased I will not claim, but it is certain that voice ds are more readily recognized and interpreted after a systematic course of aural ing. * * *

1bout 17 per cent. of our pupils have the ability to comprehend sounds to a degree ient to warrant the training of the auditory apparatus to perform, with instrumental the functions which belong to the organ of hearing in its normal condition." neteen of the institutions for the deaf give aural instruction, and 274, or about 3} ent. of the whole number of the deaf under instruction in the institutions of the ed States, receive some training by this method.

veral interesting operations for deafness by excision of the drum-head were pered by Dr. Samuel Sexton, of New York, and reported in the Medical Record of mber 31, 1887. In the five reported cases in which deafness was due to various s the results were very satisfactory, the hearing power in each case being greatly ased. It is believed that certain forms of deafness will henceforth be removable. vention.-The Sixth Conference of Principals and Superintendents of American Intions for the Deaf was held at the Mississippi institution, Jackson, Miss., April 7, 1888. The published report of the proceedings has not yet been issued, but we › from a brief notice of the convention which appeared in the July number of the erican Annals of the Deaf." "The attendance was the largest of any conference has yet been held, numbering twenty-four regular and thirty-four honorary memrepresenting twenty-four States and the Dominion of Canada. Among the honorembers were several trustees and directors of institutions.

Ir. J. L. Noyes, superintendent of the Minnesota school, was the president of the rence, and Mr. S. T. Walker, superintendent of the Kansas institution, secretary. The principal subjects of discussion, including several valuable papers, were moral eligious instruction, the acquisition of verbal language, auricular training, the reis of trustees and superintendents, and of superior and inferior officers, the imnce of thoroughness in primary instruction, the legal relations of the deaf, and chools. The session of Sunday evening was devoted to a memorial service in memf Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. ** * *

The members of the conference were entertained with genuine Southern hospitality r. Dobyns and his associates of the Mississippi institution, and the occasion was respects exceedingly pleasant both for guests and hosts."

NOTES FROM CATALOGUES, RETURNS, ETC.

COLORADO.

orado Institution for the Education of the Mute and Blind, Colorado Springs, Colo.action is given in aural development in this institution, and more time is devoted formerly to articulation and lip-reading.

CONNECTICUT.

erican Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn.-A legacy 00 was left to this school by the late Rev. W. W. Turner, the income from which is expended annually for prizes to the graduating class. Pupils over twelve years e are given three hours' daily instruction in cabinet-making, shoemaking, and ing.