383 |
| Under 10 years | 128 | 70 | 58 |
| 10-19 years | 384 | 183 | 201 |
| 20-29 " | 351 | 206 | 145 |
| 30-39 " | 478 | 293 | 185 |
| 40-49 " | 845 | 491 | 354 |
| 50-59 " | 1,655 | 930 | 725 |
| 60-69 " | 3,396 | 1,886 | 1,510 |
| 70-79 " | 8,136 | 4,368 | 3,768 |
| 80-89 " | 22,022 | 11,423 | 10,599 |
| 90-99 " | 52,746 | 28,125 | 24,621 |
| 100 years and over | 66,210 | 46,518 | 19,692 |
| Age unknown | 1,446 | 793 | 653 |
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Germany.

The number of the blind in Germany was about 39,000, or 870 per
million in 1885. The number of institutions was 28, nearly all being
educational, with a total of 2139 pupils. All these institutions,
except two which are supported entirely by private munificence, are
largely assisted by the state, the communes or the provinces.
Seventeen of them derive their entire requirements from the state, so
that they are quite independent of private charity, while the
remainder are only supplemented from public funds so far as the
private contributions fall short of the expenses.

Saxony system.

The following extracts were made from an official communication from
Hofrath Buttner, director of the institution for the blind in Dresden,
to the royal commission, concerning the care and supervision
(_Fursorge_) of the blind after their discharge from the
institution:--

"When twenty years of age, the blind are usually discharged from the
institution. Long experience has taught us that the care and
supervision of the blind after their discharge from the institution
are quite as important as their education and training in the
institution. It would, in our opinion, be unjust to remove them from
their sad surroundings, educate and accustom them to higher wants, and
then allow them to sink backward into their former miserable way of
life. After much deliberation it was decided to remain in connexion
with the discharged blind, to visit them in their places of abode, to
learn their wants, to study th