Remarks upon the education of deaf mutes : in defence of the doctrines of the second annual report of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities and in reply to the charges of the Rev. Collins Stone.

  • Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Remarks upon the education of deaf mutes : in defence of the doctrines of the second annual report of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities and in reply to the charges of the Rev. Collins Stone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    is the first accident of the kind which has ever happened to one of our pupils ; and we trust with the warning given to them of the danger of a similar exposure, and the vigilance which will in future be exercised on the part of those who have the care of them, it will be the last. Several educated deaf mutes have, within a few years, been killed while walking on the track of railroads. The practice of thus exposing themselves to almost certain destruction cannot be too strongly reprobated, and their friends should enjoin upon them the importance of discontinuing it under all circumstances. But the trust and the hope were vain; and vain were the warnings and precautions, for we read in the Fortieth Report, (p. 13,) as follows:— A severe, but not fatal accident, happened to one of our 'oldest pupils in July last, in consequence of incautiously walking on the railroad track near the city. The warning given in our last Report was unheeded, and the result was an injury, which will in a measure disable him for life. A still more shocking accident is related in the Forty-Second Report, (p. 8) :— Two of the small boys, John Parker, from Massachu- setts, and Benjamin Dawson, from New Hampshire, were killed by a train of cars as they were walking along the railroad track. The caution given them but a few hours before the accident was disregarded, and their intention of being on the track but for a few moments, till they could reach the crossing of a road, brought upon them this terrible 7