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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
The cost of the instruction and support of deaf-mutes amounted in 1898
to about 650,000 kronor. The State makes a grant of 250 kronor for every
pupil, and the County councils defray the rest. According to law, parents or
guardians (or Poor Law authorities) may be made to pay a yearly fee (50 to
100 kronor) for each pupil; but some authorities have not availed themselves
of this right.
In 1877, a Swedish Deaf and Dumb Society, one of the oldest of its
kind in Europe, was formed by the teachers at these schools. The Society has,
since 1880, published a magazine of its own, which in 1898 came to be the
common organ of the deaf and dumb schools of Scandinavia. The deaf-mutes
themselves have sometimes, after leaving school, formed societies for mutual help
and recreation, of which the Stockholm society has considerable funds at its disposal.
Blind deaf-mutes at the School of Venersborg.
The total number of deaf-mutes in Sweden, according to the census of
1890, amounted to 5,307, or 110-9 to every 100,000 inhabitants—on the whole
an uncommonly large figure. Of låte, there has even been some inconsiderable
increase.
There is a little school at Venersborg for blind deaf-mutes. It is the
only one of its kind in the world. The institution was opened in 1886 by Mrs.
E. Anrep-Nordin, who continues the direction of the school. The nnmber of
pupils since the commencement amounts to 28, while the number is still 14,
of which total, however, but 6 are blind deaf-mutes, the remainder being
blind, with a complication of other bodily or mental defects, some being blind
idiots. The method used in the teaching of these children is the >writing-method»,
as it is called, together with the employment of the finger-alphabet, and writing
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