08 
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.