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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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priations in accordance with said estimates.The annual report shall also present a concise review of the workof the commission for the preceding year, with such suggestionsand recommendations for improving the condition of the blind asto it may seem expedient. § 8. It shall be the duty of this board to continue to make in-quiries concerning the cause of blindness, to learn what propor-tion of these cases are preventable, and to inaugurate such pre-ventive measures for the state of New York as may seem wise. § 9. The members of the board shall receive no compensation fortheir services, but their traveling and other necessary expenses in-curred in the performance of their official duties shall be auditedby the comptroller and paid by the treasurer of the state. § 10. There may be expended within one year from the datewhereon this bill shall become a law a sum not exceeding fortythousand dollars in carrying out the provisions of this act. § 11. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Commission on the Blind. 107 UNIVERSALITY OF THE MOVEMENT IN AMERICAIN BEHALF OF THE ADULT BLIND. That these recommendations are entirely in accord with ageneral movement throughout the country may be sho\\ai by thefollowing brief summary: Pennsylvania has been spending upwards of $20,000 a yearfor the past thirty years for the benefit of the adult blind of thatState. Illinois has provided an industrial home for the adult blindof that State at an annual expenditure at the present time of$55,000. California also supports an industrial home which costs theState $25,000 a year to maintain; the appropriation for thepresent year has, upon recommendation of the State Board ofCharities, been increased to $50,000. Massachusetts has expended for teaching the adult blind intheir homes, $1,000 in 1900, $3,600 in 1901, and $5,000 peryear since that time: for the work of the Commission in 1903,$2,000; in 1904 and 1905, $5,000; in 1906, $20,000 — and theCommission is recommending $50,000 for 1907

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