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Title: Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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owever, the report in its present form representsthe labors of the Commission and its employees considerablybeyond the compensation provided by the appropriation for theinvestigation of the subject. This is the only explanation of the incompleteness of the reportin several particulars and the very noticeably abrupt ending ofcertain portions of the report, as well as many important omissions. The Commission expresses the hope that the work it has ac-complished and the published results of its labors, incompletethough they are, will prove of sufficient value to commend them- (5) 6 Repoet of the Commission on the Blind. selves to the people of the State generally, and especially to allworkers for the betterment of the condition of the blind of theState. It is their ardent desire that the work already done willprove of sufficient inspirational value to encourage others to con-tinue the labors which thev have but besrun. F. Park Lewis,(Signed.) E. P. Morfoed, W. J. McClusky, Commissioners.
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BLIND MAN USING A TYPEWRITER FROM A PHONOGRAPHIC RECORD. An employment which promises to be remunerative to blind people. REPORT To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York: Gentlemen.— When the Commission of 1903, appointed toinvestigate the condition of the adult blind, transmitted its re-port to the Legislature on February 1, 1904, the report wasnecessarily incomplete. - It was evident to the Commissioners thatthe amount appropriated was insufficient to make a complete cen-sus of the blind of the State, and a portion of it was used to in-vestigate the condition and report upon 1,000 of the blind. Fromthis number conclusions were drawn and suggestions made con-cerning the total number, four-fifths of whom had not been vis-ited. From the data obtained it appeared that, while the Statemade creditable provision for school children — expending forthe education of about 300 an annual sum of nearly $100,000,which sum is supplemented by private bounty — it made no pro-v

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