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: ' " After three months' instruction , 4 of those who "were recently admitted as pupils earned respectively 5 s . 6 d . per-week for therm *
selves . " In the last Annual Report , reference was made to an inmate of
the Institution , who is totally deaf and blind ; and as the circumstances connected with his case show forcibly what may be done
by those who labor under this double privation , it is now felt desirable to state , that although he has only been under instruction
thirteen months , yet he can earn by brushmaking , 12 s . per week ; he ¦ " can Two also new read trades by four have systems been , and introduced write with into a pencil the Institution .
during the past year , viz ., hair-broom making , and carpentering * . The manufacture of hair-brooms by the blind had hitherto been
considered an impossibility , owing to boiling pitch being an indispensable agent in their production _; but , by the use of a simple
contrivancethe blind are now enabled to make them as well b touch as other _^ workmen can by sight . y
" During the past year , classes have been formed by the Association in Islington , Marylebone , Kensington , and Greenwichin
which reading , writing , arithmetic , and geography , have been , taught to the blind . These classes are of great service to those
who cannot be admitted into the Institution , and they also afford means by which the men and women employed by the Society at
their homes may receive religious and secular knowledge . " The benefits of this system may be illustrated by the case of
J . Toumie , who , although a cripple and blind , was enabled , after receiving four lessons , to earn 2 s . 6 d . per week for himself .
_"As many of the blind are unable , from paralysis and other causes , to contribute in the smallest degree to their own support
, pensions varying in amount from £ 9 to £ 5 per annum have been granted to three of those who are in this painful position . The
free circulating library of books in relief-print has increased in usefulness ; by its means seventy of the blind are supplied with
the Scriptures , and all the secular books which have been embossed for their use ; and many instances have occurred in which the
solitary homes of the sightless have been cheered through this valuable , but inexpensive department .
" It is also gratifying to state , that no fewer than ten Institutions for the Blind , which existed before the commencement of this
Association , are now regularly supplied with information and apparatus for the use of the blind from this Institution .
" It is encouraging to be able to record , that the proceeds of the sale of the work of the blind during the past year have amounted to
the sum of £ 2 , 896 5 s . lOd ., and that the subscriptions and donations to the general fund have reached the total amount of £ 2424 19 s . 6 d .
, " Concerts by blind performers are given at the Institution ,
w whi hich ch are take greatl place y app every lauded third Friday the visitors in the month These , performances are conducted !
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/45/
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