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YEAR . See also:United See also:England See also:Scotland. See also:Ireland. See also:Kingdom. & See also:Wales. • 1851 I in 1550 I in 1739 I in 1340 I in 1264 1861 I in 1430 I in 1639 I in 1310 I in 1025 1871 I in 1642 I in 1972 I in 1610 I in 974 1881 I in 1694 I in 1953 I in 1745 I in Ioo8 1891 I in 1814 I in 2040 I in 1893 I in 1053 1901 I in 1897 I In 2132 I in 1694 I in 1122 There has, therefore, been on the whole a steady decrease of those described as " See also:deaf and dumb " in proportion to the See also:population in See also:Great See also:Britain and Ireland. But in the See also:census for 1901, in addition to the 15,246 returned as " deaf and dumb " in England and Wales, 18,507 were entered as being " deaf," 2433 of whom were described as having been " deaf from childhood." Mr B. H. See also:Payne, the See also:principal of the Royal See also:Cambrian Institution, See also:Swansea, makes the following remarks upon these figures: " The natural conclusion, of course- is that there has been a large increase, relative as well as See also:absolute, of the class in which we are interested, which we See also:call the deaf, and which includes the deaf and dumb. Indeed, the number, large as it is, cannot be considered as See also:complete, for the schedules did not require persons who were only deaf to See also:state their infirmity, and, though many did so, it may be presumed that more did not. " On the other See also:hand, circumstances exist which may reasonably be held to modify the conclusion that there has been a large relative increase of the deaf. The spread of See also:education, the development of See also:local See also:government, and an improved See also:system of See also:registration, may have had the effect of procuring See also:fuller enumeration and more appropriate See also:classification than heretofore, while 1368 persons described simply as dumb, and who therefore probably belong, not to the deaf, but to the feeble-minded and aphasic classes, are included in the ' deaf and dumb ' See also:total. It is also to be noted that some of those who described themselves as ' deaf ' though not See also:born so may have . been educated in the See also:ordinary way before they lost their See also:hearing, and are therefore outside the See also:sphere of the operation of See also:schools for the deaf. In connexion with the census of 1891, it has been remarked in the See also:report of the institution that no See also:provision was made in the schedules for distinguishing the congenital from the non-congenital deaf, and that it was desirable to draw such a distinction. To ascertain the relative increase or decrease of one or the other See also:section of the class would contribute to our knowledge of the incidence of known causes of deafness or to the See also:confirmation or See also:discovery of other causes, and so far indicate the appropriate See also:measures of prevention, while such an inquiry as that recommended has, besides, a certain bearing upon educational views. " The exact number of ' deaf and dumb ' and ' deaf ' See also:children who are of school See also:age cannot be ascertained from the census tables, which give the See also:numbers in quinquennial age-See also:groups, while the school age is seven to sixteen. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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