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Excerpt from Benevolent Institutions 1904 The schools and homes for the deaf and blind, being mostly under state control, increase in number but slowly in comparison with institutions for the other classes, which generally owe their inception to private initiative. The occasional founding of state establish ments for the deaf and blind also illustrates the policy prevailing in the different states in regard to these members of society. The growth of benevolent institutions from 1890 to 1903, inclusive, is shown in the following table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.