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Elementary Schools.
parents, and as their education is considered of less importance
than that of the boys.
The teaching of the deaf-mute, after various isolated at-
tempts, was systematically developed about the same time in France,
hy the abbé de PEpée, and in Germany, by Samuel Heinicke. But
whereas the French method was based on the language of signs,
Heinicke made the attempt to teach the deaf and dumb actual
speaking, in which he was successful. In the year 1878 Heinicke
opened in Leipzig the first German public institution for the
Deaf-Mute Statistics for the German Empire, according to
the Census of December the 1st 1900.
Number
states
ot
[nhabitants
|. Prussia . . .
2. Bavaria . .
3. Saxony . . .
t. Wiirttemberg .
5. Baden . . .
5. Hesse . . . . . .
7. Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
B. Saxe-Weimar . . . .
9. Mecklenburg-Strelitz
10. Oldenburg . . . . .
“1. Brunswick . . . . .
i2. Saxe-Meiningen . . .
13. Saxe-Altenburg | . .
4. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . .
15. Anhalt . . . . . .
'6. Schwarzburg-Sondersh. .
17. Schwarzburg -Rudolstadt
8. Waldeck . . . . .
19. Reull, Elder Line . .
20. ReuB, Younger Line .
21. Schaumburg-Lippe . .
22. Lippe . . . . . .
23. Libeck . . . . . .
24. Bremen . . . . . . |
25. Hamburg . . . .
26. Elsafi-Lothringen. . .
Total | BG BT 47°
34 472 509
6 176 057
4202 216
2169 480
1 867 944
1119893
607 770
362 873
102 602
399 180
164 333
250731
194 914
229 550
316 085
80898
93 059
57918
68 396
139210
43132
'38 952
96 775
224 882
768 349
1740470
Deaf and Dumb
Male
Female
Total
{7 078
2 869
1309
1202
1 205 |
502
246
169
28
86
170
194
45
77
70
22
‘4
“4
192
14 370
2625
1087
1011
942 |
402
239
135
35
78
131
t10
41
72
72
31 448
5494
239%
2213
2147
904
485
304
62
164
301
234
86
149
143
37
79
35
17
30
1°9
29
86
55
175
233
1 226
67
13
12
29
102
132
701
32
16
44
26
73
101
635
26363 | 992882 48 7501)
ly To every 10 000 Inhabitants there are 8.7 Deaf and Dumb.