Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Charities: Transmitted to the Legislature, January 18, 1882 General remarks regarding State institutions for the blind Institutions for the deaf and dumb. New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Incorporated benevolent institutions for the deaf and dumb Institutions for idiots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.