. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . was fifty, of whom eight wereofficers, which number includes the two resigned, twenty-eightpupils, two employees, five domestics, and seven blind workmenand women who were employed in the shops, An examination of the financial statement of this institutionshows that each department was conducted at a profit rangingfrom $557,08 in the caning department to $36,41 in the fancywork department. The Board received from the State of Con-necticut and disbursed $22,546,80 for the benefit of the seven


. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . was fifty, of whom eight wereofficers, which number includes the two resigned, twenty-eightpupils, two employees, five domestics, and seven blind workmenand women who were employed in the shops, An examination of the financial statement of this institutionshows that each department was conducted at a profit rangingfrom $557,08 in the caning department to $36,41 in the fancywork department. The Board received from the State of Con-necticut and disbursed $22,546,80 for the benefit of the seventy-two State pupils under its charge during this year. The significant feature of the Connecticut law, which is en-tirely unique, is that all matters pertaining to the education ofblind youth as well as the training in trades of blind adults areentirely in the hands of the Board of Education of the Blindorganized for that purpose. This Board appears to be given anabsolutely free hand in all its work, and such must, in the opinionof your Commission, be the case if the best results are to M ^M Q H _- 3 m


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