Deaf mutism : a clinical and pathological study / by James Kerr Love / with chapters on the education and training of deaf mutes by W. H. Addison.

  • Love, James Kerr, 1858-1942
Date:
1896
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Credit: Deaf mutism : a clinical and pathological study / by James Kerr Love / with chapters on the education and training of deaf mutes by W. H. Addison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) Deaf-mute unions are not prolific and are often sterile altogether. This fact, which the above figures show in connection with Glasgow, is well brought out for the rest of the United Kingdom by Mr. Howard’s tables (see pp. 83-85). Every institution in the land could supply evidence of this kind. In the Forty-seventh Report (1893-94) of the Cambrian Institution, under the heading “ Statistical Kotes,” important information on various subjects is put down. In connection with the present subject the following table is given. The figures embrace the period 1847 to 1894. ] 1 1 1 ] 3 1 2 1 2 1 L 3 4 2 4 2 3 family had 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 deaf out of 6 11 8 10 9 5 6 7 8 9 15 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 34 families had 54 deaf out of 130 children. In almost all of them heredity may be assumed. The writer is indebted to Mr. Townsend, the Principal of the Eoyal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Birmingham, for the following case which is worthy of publication. Deaf and ® - dumb brother. = O Hearing wife. Deaf and • = dumb sister. -® Cohabited with deaf and dumb man. Deaf and ® = dumb sister. — O Hearing husband. ^Hearing O = husband. = ® Deaf and dumb daughter. i 1 1 1 1 . 1 '1 o o o o • ® ® 4 » Deaf and dumb daughter. O O 1 1 1 D • • ® Deaf and dumb son to married hearing man.
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