cousins, 632
(or 25%) were congenitally blind, of whom 350 (or 55.4%) had also
blind relatives of the classes specified; while, among the 53,980
whose parents were not so related, the number of congenitally blind
was 3666 (or but 6.8%), of whom only 1023 (or 27.9%) had blind
relatives.

France.

In 1883 the number of blind in France was estimated at 32,056, the
total population of the country being 38,000,000; 2548 of the blind
were under, and 29,508 above, 21 years of age; of the former 857 were
receiving instruction in 21 schools supported by the state, by the
city of Paris, by some of the departments, and by some religious
bodies. The four Parisian institutions are the Institution Nationale
des Jeunes Aveugles, the Ecole Braille (founded in 1883), the
Etablissement des Soeurs Aveugles de St Paul (founded in 1852), and
that of the Freres de Saint Jean de Dieu (founded in 1875).

TABLE III.--_The Blind, by Degree of Blindness and Age-Periods._

+--------------------------+----------+----------+-----------+
| | The | The | The |
| Age-Period. | Blind. | Totally | Partially |
| | | Blind. | Blind. |
+--------------------------+----------+----------+-----------+
| Number-- | | | |
| All Ages | 64,763 | 35,645 | 29,118 |
| Under 10 years | 2,307 | 1,262 | 1,045 |
| 10-19 years | 6,001 | 2,861 | 3,140 |
| 20-29 " | 4,861 | 2,851 | 2,010 |
| 30-39 " | 5,024 | 3,077 | 1,947 |
| 40-49 " | 6,504 | 3,778 | 2,726 |
| 50-59 " | 8,530 | 4,791 | 3,739 |
| 60-69 " | 10,507 | 5,835 | 4,672 |
| 70-79 " | 11,421 | 6,132 | 5,289 |
| 80-89 " | 7,490 | 3,885 | 3,605 |
| 90-99 " | 1,596 | 851 | 745 |
| 100 years and over | 232 | 163 | 69 |
| Age unknown | 290 | 159 | 131 |
| Number per 1,000,000 | | | |
| population of same age--| | | |
| All ages | 852 | 469 |