TABLE 92.-Statistics of Institutions for the Blind, etc.-PART IV. From the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1886-87. a Includes department for the deaf. b From miscellaneous sources. c Includes receipts from shops, etc. d All other sources, including legacies. e Income from investments. EDUCATION OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED. GENERAL REMARKS. A private school, opened at Millville, N. J., in September, 1887, was on March 1, 1888, removed to Vineland, and is now known as "The New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feeble-minded Children." It is controlled by a board of directors, with Rev. S. O. Garrison as superintendent. The institution has the cottage system. Mainly through the efforts of Mr. Garrison, a law was enacted by the Legislature of New Jersey in March, 1888, providing for the establishment of a "home for the care and training of feeble-minded women.' Vineland was selected for its location, and Mr. Garrison appointed superintendent. It is now open for the reception of patients, and is similar in character to the institution at Newark, N. Y. A school was in April last organized in the "Brunswick Home," at Amityville, N. Y. This "home" is for the reception of "idiotic, epileptic, paralytic, nervous, and feebleminded persons of both sexes," and patients are received who have been rejected by all other institutions. It is constructed on the cottage plan. The school is designed for the instruction of those patients who possess sufficient capacity to learn. Special attention is given to instruction in singing, and the drawing class is free to all. Mrs. E. M. Seguin, widow of the late Dr. E. C. Seguin, has successfully carried on in New York, a private school for the feeble-minded, which was established by Dr. Seguin in 1878. It appears this year for the first time, in our Reports. A new building is now in course of construction at the Nebraska Institution, which will increase the capacity of that institution to one hundred and thirty. Seventy-three were present on June 1, 1888. It is hoped that the next State Legislature will make appropriation for an industrial department. The Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth was transferred in March, 1887, from Lawrence to Winfield. "The board of trustees have resolved to enlarge the scope of the institution, and render it an asylum in fact as well as a school, making provision for the cases of profound idiocy." * Dr. A. C. Rogers, the superintendent of the Minnesota school for feeble-minded, at Faribault, says: "We have developed what we know as the 'coördinate' system of training * viz: The 'dovetailing' of school-room and manual training occupations. We think that the pupils do better in the school-rooms under this system, besides developing decided ability for industrial pursuits." |