Memoir Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race (1883) / Chapter Skim
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CHAPTER II
CHAPTER II
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The totnl iiuml^er of pnpili noted mclades tbe children who were in attendance at the dates of the reports I n the Appendix I have presented in tabular form a critical analysis of all the cases mentioned in the reports of the American Asylum and Illinois Institution, classifying the pupils according to the decades in which they were born. The labor involved has deterred me from making a similar examination of the pupils of the New York, Ohio, and Indiana institutions untd m*
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Total number Total number of pupils re- lecordcd to Date of Date ot coided to have mar Perceut Name of institution openiug repoi t have mai- ried deaf- •* ge ried niutea American Asylum 1817 1877 642 502 78 2 New Yoik Institution 1818 1854 191 142 74 3 Ohio Institution 1829 1854 56 39 69 6 Indiana Institution 1844 1854 26 21 80 a DlinoiB Institution 1846 1882 174 152 87 3 Total 1,089 856 78 C The large percentage of marriages with deaf-mutes reported from Indiana and Illinois suggests the explanation that intermarriages among the dea} and dumb may perhaps have become more common of late years Both institutions arc of comparatively recent origin (the one founded in 1844, the other in 1846)
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The results are shown in the following table. TABLE XXI, Total Total recorded recorded Period of birth to have Percent to have married age married deaf-mutes Before 1810 129 1 72 55 8 1810 to 1839 715 1 577 80 7 1840 to 1859 233 ' 196 84 1 1860 aud after 12 1 11 91 7 ., 1 The number married who were born since 1869 is too small to be relied upon for a percentage.
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Total Total recorded Presiiined date of marriage lecorded as to have Percentage married married deaf-mutes Before 1843 143 95_ 66 4 Between 1843 and 1857 217 175 80 6 Between 1857 and 1867 131 110 84 0 Between 1867 and 1877 151 122 80.8 In this case we find that although the number of pupds presumed to have married between 1867 and 1877 is greater than the number who married m the preceding decade, the proportion who married deaf-mutes is less. I t is evident from a comparison of all the tables that of the deaf-mutes who marry at the present time not less than 80 per cent, marry deaf mutes, while of those who married during the early half of the present century the proportion who married deaf-mutes was much smaller.
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This is important even in the case of marriage with a hearing person, for in most of the cases of such marriages that have come under my personal observation the hearing partner belonged to a family containing deaf-mutes^ However imperfect may be the records of the marriages of the deaf it is abundantly evident, (1) that there ts a tendency among deaf mutes to select deaf-m,utes as their partners tn mart lage ; (2)
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