Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-eighth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1892
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Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-eighth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TALLE OF SCHOOL ATTAINMENTS OF PATIENTS. This Table is compiled from the Quarterly Reports of the Schoolmaster, Schoolmistress, and Gymnastic Master. GRADES. cL 1. Senior Boys. ASSES 0] 2. Low Grade Boys. - PATIE^ 3. Infant Boys. ITS 4. Girls. TOTALS. 285 23 107 190 605 I. SPEECH. 1. Make no attempt . 3 4 10 2 19 2. Make some attempt . .. 5 5 15 27 52 3. Make a few articulate sounds . 20 3 7 15 45 i 4. Speak indistinctly. 38 3 20 29 90 ! 5. Speak fairly . 87 6 27 48 168 1 6. Speak well . 132 2 28 69 231 i 1 II. READING. 605 1. Knov/ no letters or words . 89 17 62 78 246 1 2. Know a few letters. 73 4 15 46 138 ! 3. Know at sight a few words. 12 1 8 20 41 1 4. Know all the letters . 12 1 18 17 48 i 5. Read easy words and spell them 52 0 3 12 67 I 6. Read fairly* . 47 0 1 i. 17 1 65 i * 92 Patients read hooTis alone for amusement. 605 III. WRITING. 1. Do nothing but scribble . ... 36 18 42 51 147 2. Form strokes, &c., on slate. 88 5 42 73 208 3. Do. do. in copy book 28 0 9 19 56 4, Form letters in copybook. 29 0 6 20 55 ! 5. Write easy words in copy book. 50 0 5 10 65 1 6. Write fairly* . . 54 0 3 17 74 i *89 Patients write letters home with assistance and 37 without assistance. 605 i 559 Letters have been written and sent home during the past year. IV. ARITHMETIC. 1. Cannot count at all . 45 15 48 66 174 2. Count a little. 93 7 33 48 181 3. Count up to 30 . 24 1 10 19 54 4. Understand value of unit figures 29 0 12 34 75 5. Work simple addition sums . 69 0 3 17 89 6. Work easy sums in simple rules* 25 0 1 6 32 *10 Boys work sums in the compound rules. 1 1 60b !