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Towards the Prevention of Deaf-Mutism: A Review of Forty Years' Progress

IT is not often that an observer is privileged to compare the figures attached to his own work after so long a period as forty years. It is over forty years since I began work at the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, now known as the Langside School for the Deaf, and it is with the figures collected at that school, and from other Scottish schools, that I have chiefly to deal with in the first place. For the most part I shall avoid census returns, because these are not given in the details necessary, nor are they reliable enough for the purpose of this meeting. The earlier figures were gathered as the result of a circular letter which I addressed to all British schools in 1895 after four years' work at the institution. The later figures were collected for me by Mr. Haycock in response to a similar appeal in 1931.