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 : thirty-second annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1896
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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 : thirty-second annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6g SCHOOL ATTAINMENTS OF PATIENTS. This Table is compiled from the Quarterly Reports of the Schoolmaster, Schoolmistress, and Gymnastic Master. CLASSES OF PATIENTS. GRADES. 1. 2. Low Grade Boys. 3. 4. Senior Boys. Junior Boys. Girls. TOTALS. 233 63 79 184 559 I. SPEECH. 1. Make no attempt . 0 9 2 2 13 2. Make some attempt . 4 14 18 22 58 3. Make a few articulate sounds . 5 i 15 5 12 35 4. Speak indistinctly. S ^ 7 14 19 71 5. Speak fairly . 1 6b i 13 11 28 117 6. Speak well . 1 128 ! 7 29 i 101 265 II. READING. 1 [ 559 1. Know no letters or words . 30 48 48 74 200 2. Know a few letters. 69 11 11 38 129 3. Know at sight a few words. 36 1 2 16 55 4. Know all the letters . 16 2 9 14 41 5. Read easy words and spell them 34 1 5 24 64 6. Read fairly* . 48 0 4 18 70 * 72 Patients read boohs alone for amusement. 559 HI. WRITING. 1. Do nothing but scribble . 15 38 45 61 159 2. Form strokes, &c., on slate. 62 24 16 45 147 3. Do. do. in copy book 28 1 7 23 59 4. Form letters in copybook. ]7 0 2 15 34 5. Write easy words in copy book. 52 0 3 10 65 6. Write fairly* . 59 0 6 30 95 *78 Patients write letters home with assistance and 31 without assistance. 456 Letters have been written and sent home during the past year. 559 IV. ARITHMETIC. 1. Cannot count at all . 9 36 40 61 146 2. Count a little. 51 21 17 34 125 3. Count up to 30 . 56 5 8 37 106 4. Understand value of unit figures 30 1 8 29 68 5. Work simple addition sums . 58 0 5 9 72 6. Work easy sums in simple rules* 29 0 1 14 44 *12 Boys work sums in the compound rules. 559