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Title: Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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comingpersonally in contact with them in the distribution of free ticketsto those blind who were suited to attend musical and dramaticentertainments. The association has held two public meetingsat which the principal speakers were Mr. Choate, Mark Twain,Miss Helen Keller, Dr. Moon, Mr. Morford, and others. Thepurpose of the association is to improve and extend the servicesalready being done for the blind by co-operating with othersocieties and individuals working for them; to aid in the pre-vention of all forms of unnecessary blindness; to teach adult blindmen and women some occupation by which they may at leastbecome wage earners and have a larger choice in life than isoffered by the State, in almshouses or in private institutions,which necessitate their being separated from their families. Theassociation has no wild, impracticable idea that all the blind aresuddenly to be transformed into self-supporting citizens. Theassociation maintains a department for the distribution of liter-
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A TOTALLY BLIND GIRL REGULARLY EMPLOYED AS TELEPHONE OPERATOR. A direct result of the efforts of the New York Association for the Blind. Commission on the Blind. 25 ature on the prevention of infantile blindness, and gives personaladvice on the subject through its consulting oculist. It maintains a registration bureau.— During the past year theassociation has taken a complete and accurate census of the cityof ISTew York. This vs^ork was well under way when the Com-mission undertook its work of making a census of the blind ofthe State. For this reason your Commissioners deemed it ad-visable to appoint Miss Edith Holt, the recording secretary ofthe association, director of the census — a burden she willinglyassumed, though serving entirely without money compensation.The Commissioners adopted the card used by the association forits census work and were thereby enabled to save much time intheir effort to take the census, and to much more nearly completethe same than would have been po

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