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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Gazette, 1893-06-29, Page 6{ MB DEFECTIVE CLAM tnsaue, Dear, Dnmb and Blind People. Statist les Concerning the Unfortunate Peo- ple or the Country—Proportion of in- sane Women Compared With lieu—The Evil Largely an Imparted One—How Canaaufi'ompares With other Countries lathe Matter. The Dominion Department of Agriculture will shortly issue Bulletin No. 10 of the census series. It deals with the defective Biasses of Canada, and in this term is in- cluded for census purposes the insane, the deaf and dumb and the blind. Mr. George Johnston the statistieian, has evidently taken great pains to secure accuracy. A special agent of the census branch was sent to the asylums for the insane in Ontario and Quebec to procure the lists of inmates, with their post -office addresses. With these lists in hand, the census compilers carefully examined the returns of the sev- eral thousand enumerators, picking out all the insane returned. These were then com- pared with the names obtained from the. several insane asylums' books with a view to prevent duplication. The result justi- fied the additional expense and trouble. In all the provinces the assistance of the medi- cal superintendents of the asylums was sought and cheerfully given. The number of insane in Canada in 1891 thus obtained was 13,355 ; • of deaf mutes, 4,819, and of blind, 3,363, making atotal of defectives (not including idiots) of 21,542. married or have been married, ::Of lite _`fe= males 60 per cent are or have been. marrieds 55 per bent. Of the '"males have tried' the estate of matrimony.` There is a somewhat smaller number of girls under 15 wha are blind, in proportion to all the gills of the land under that age, than there was in 1871. Boys here slight- ly increased, the comparison being 2.02 boys . "blind in,every 30,000- boys in 1891, against 1.95 boys in 1871. - There are 752 blind who can read and write, 2,4.64 who can neither read nor write, and 152 who can read but cannot write. With respect to.occupations,74, par cent. of the blind belong to " the non-productive class, against 70.9 per cent. . f the insane and 67:5 per cent: of the deaf and dumb.. The bulletin contains many other points of interest iii connecsion with the defective cases of the Canadian community. T:IE WOlE%S CONGRESS. Discussion or Literary Subjects, Serial Re- form., Dress iteforuts, tate Drama ete. Speakers before the Women's Congress at Chicago have discussed -literary subjects, social reforms, dress reform, the drama, the proper employments for women, and various other matters of presumptively feminine interest, but "everything," she tells us, "has turned on this one subject" of woman suffrage. The heroines of the Congress are the veteran woman suffrage leaders and agitators. "To send Miss An- thony into any corner of the institute was to fill it." "Every woman in the room ap- THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. History of the Great Church,Founded by Dr. Chamois. Among the most interesting events that have lately taken place_ iu Great Britain was the celebration of the jubilee or fiftieth anniversary; of the foundation -of the .Free Church of Scotland. But for the amazing success: cif: this religious organization, whose ministers from theoutset have been sup- ported by voluntary contributions, . we should hear -nothing of movements to dises- tablish the _ Anglican Church in Wales and the Establishes'. Presbyterian Church =r in Scotland.. The: Free °-Church is alt object .House cleaning time is now On, and you will lesson whose significance no one can mis- take. - It was on Thursday, May 18," 1843, that, -under the leadership of Dr. Chalmers, 470 ministers of the Church of Scotland, or nearly two-fifthsof what was then the whole number, severed their connection with the State, and combined to form a so-called Free. Church. .The cause .of the secession WAS the exercise of church patronage, and especially a decision of the highest court to the_etTect :that not even the vehement op- posithon of a united parish to a nominee presented by the patron, would be any bar - Glasgow House. as usual make some changes in which the Dry Goods Store takes a part. Whatever these changes may be --GREAT or small --we twill be pleased to show you how well and how reasonab' we can supply your wants. rier to his settlement as a minister. Soon- Lace Curtains.er than submit to the imposition of spiritual, teachers against their will, the large frac- tion of the Scottish people which represent- ed most distinctly the old Puritanic or Covenanter spirit resolved to cut them lil -hate and Cream, also the Lace Nett by selves off from all the pecuniary resources ''the yard, the Priotes of Which are Flock We have thein of different designs and prices of the Established Kirk, and thenceforth, to support their pastors by voluntary offer - THE INSANn. plattded" when a woman in the gallery in- lugs.. It was a- tremendous undertaking, Dealingwith insane, the statistician terrunted a discussion on "the ethics of and *but ccfew of the onlookers believed it would succeed. points ot that Canada has, fewer insane dress'' byshouting : . "We want our four women in proportion to insane men than gray-haired veterans, Susan B. Anthony, in most other countries, the .proportion Lucy _ Stoi eJulia Ward Howe, and Ise of insane women to insane men in Canada belle BeecherHooker sitting on the stage all being S8- females to 100 males, while in -Eng- at once that. we may: simply look on them." land and Wales it is 118 females to I00 males, When the Canadian women present -at the and in France, 110 females to 100 males. Congress tVere asked what was the meaning .I -Ie points out that the statistics -of insane of "a little=unobtrusive yellow ribbon" by civil condition indicate that marriage has .wpm ..by them, ..they replied : " That is the a beneficial effect upon both sexes, though emblem of the suffrage ;" and, accordingly, it has a more beneficial influence . upon men these ribbons' "are now as thick as the than upon women, the proportion of married insane men being 15.5 in every 10,000 of the married male population, and of married insane women nearly 20 in every 10,000 of the married female population. With re- spect to the widowed, the retinns show 35 widowers insane in every 10,000 widowers, and 40 widows insane `in every' 10,000 widows in the land, indicating that the dis- ruption of the marriae tie by death has a mere profound influence upon woman than upon man. In 1871 the insane under 15 years old were 1.2 for the males, and 5.03 per 10,000 of Tach sex of the same ages. In 1891 the cor- .esponding figures were 5.05 for males and 8 for females, showing that insanity is not sn the increase among the children of the country. •- - LARGELY AN IMPORTED EVIL - Analysis of the returns shows that the native born Canadians do not contribute their proportionate share of insanity ; that in point of •fact' insanity is largely an im• ported evil. The ineane who are born onto° side of Canada and those who are born in Canada. both of whose parents were foreign born, number 90 in every 10,000 persons foreign born, and insane born -in Canada,of parents one or both of whome-wrere=born in Canada, number 18 in every10,000 of the native born. " Mr. Johnson puts this importable --fact -thus to the' public: "Tie native born Canadians are nearly nineteen times more numerous than the English born,_ but have only twelve times the number of insane. They are twenty-eight times more numer- ous than the Irish born and have less than seven times the number of insane. They are thirty-seven times more numerous than the;Seoteh born and have less than eighteen tithes the number of insane." In thio connection it is= somewhat sug- gestive to find that the same conditions ex- ist with respect to the deaf and dumb, and •to the blind. ' The foreign population, Sieh is less than one-seventh of the whole pophiation, has contributed one-fourth of the "deaf and dumb, and one-third of the blind. In aswering the question, "Has insanity increased in Canada ?" the statistician sets aside the census of .1381 as not in this par- ticular accurately taken, and taking the figures of the census of 1871 shows that in the four provinces of Ontario, Quebec, No- va Scotia and New Brunswick the number ► of insane has increased in 20 years 34.4 per Bent. while the population has increased 23.5 per cent. By an analysis of the figures he shows that the increase of insanity has been chiefly in Ontario, to which province immigrationhas been largely directed elute ing the past scene of years. , Notwithstanding that Canada seems to have been the dumping gamed: for defect- ives efectives by other countries, the comparison given by Mr. Johnson shows that Canada has four fewer insane per 10,000inhabitants: than England and Scotland, nine fewer than Ireland and five fewer than the'Qnited States and the Australian colony of Vic- toria. THE DEAF ALD DUMB. Tha deaf and lamb in .Canada consist of 2,590 males and 2,229 females.' There are 1,929 single males 1,751 single females ;.552 males and 330 feuialeh are married ; 108 widowers and 148 widows coinpletethe list, Taking the four original provinces of the confederation for comparison;" :the figures indicate that the deaf mutes have: not in- creased faster than population . during 20 years. About forty per hent of the deaf and dumb have acquired t}ie power to, convey their thoughts aid receive impressions_ through reading and writing. The" -deaf and dumb are employed in various avoca-; tions, the proportion being 3,264 distribut- ed among- non=productive classes-aud 1,555 amongpreddcers. Of the latter; 963 are. It turned out,.however, that, in what a Scotchman looked upon as a case of con- science, there were scarcelyanylimitsto his generosity. The funds needed for erecting, churches, manses or minister's dwellings, schools, colleges, halls, and mission build- ings were promptly and lavishly supplied. Moreover, a -general sustentation fund, sug- gested by Dr. Chalmers, was raised to pro, . vide a fixed minimum income for every minister, whioh at the present time amounts World's Congress badges, which every one , to eight hundred dollars a year, that is, wears:. _ "This subject has run away with the Wome i's Congress." Beside it every= thing elle has become trivial. Really,. there is nothing else for women to hold a Congress about unless it be woman suffrage. They have nothing left to ask for except the ✓ballot. Socially they are dominant. The futureof the race rests with them. In the business of the world there is no sphere of activity from which they are deaarred. The old-time prejudices against the public employment of women have been overcome. They are free to do as they please in that matter without subjecting themselves to either masculine or feminine criticism. They have won their social 'independence. When these "four gray-haired veterans" first appeared on the platform to argue for while increased. from 470 to 1,169. Not the rights of women, they were hooted and only has the Free Church been self -support - lampooned as creatures who had -unsexed ing, butit has been active in missionary work abroad. The income . of its foreign mission department has increased from thirty thousand dollars in 1843 to about suffrage, whether_ man or woman, was five hundred thousand dollars, and its work- treated as a crack -brained -oddity, an enemy ing staff has been enlarged front a handful ofe the Chnot nti organization f society, a of employeesdred and ninety-two former period to eight i person not _entitled to serious regard. In hundred and ni :sty-twn unbaptized preach- 1 1\`''►' the common speech and in the _popular ere. In India, in Arabia, in the New ' • estimation, the women's rights agitators Hebrides,and in Southern Africa,the.mis- were "long-haired men and short -haired sionaries f the Free, Church are energetic considerably more than the minimum in- come of clergymen of the Church of Eng- land, In the very first year after the seces- sion the sum contributed by the Free Church for all purposes was upward of one million eight hundred thousand dollars. During some twenty years the income con- tinued to average about the .same amount, but throughout the last ten or twelve yea_n it has exceeded three million dollars. For the year ending March, I833, the total contributions were more shah three million two hundred thousand dollars. The entire sum contributed during the fifty years of the Free Church's existence is one hundred and fifteen million dollars, . . and the number of ministers has mean - themselves. Instead of being heroines in„ the eyes of women, they were scorned and derided by them. An advocate of woman Carpets an Oilcloths. �o'r'rom. We have the low-priced reasonable Hemp, which present a very good appearance and in colors that Eire likely to stand for some time, also a better quality of Union of New- est design just to hand direct from the factory. Stair and Floor Oilcloths in Different Patterns. verything_ in Dress goods Parasols Laces, Gloves Silk Mitts Hosiery Underwear etc. for Spring, complete. women. The extension of the "sphere of women," as it used to be called, was vio- lently opposed, as promising the destruction of everything lovely and beautiful in the -feminine character. If women spoke in public they l.ad for hearers only a few detested or derided partisans, and the mul• titudeof enemies who wentto throw .ridicule and supcessful. We should add that the . Established Church of Scotland itself has profited by the exampleof the seceders.. The abolition of patronage in .that Church by act of Parliament in 1874 bore striking testimony to the soundness of Dr. Chal- mers' views on the subject. at them. The .'reliminary skirmish. - . - Now we see these' same women the hero- ines of the crowded meetings of the Women's Throughout the Behring Sea controversy Congress, applauded, honored, and revered the Americans have been constantly making of their sisters ; and their cause commands claims of triumphs which upon investigation So far as social turn out to be ill-founded or premature. the respect of all men. concerned, they. They are evidently conducting their case and legal privileges are concerned, have won the day. Their grey hairs are as if it were a battle, and hope to win by a the crown of victory. The appearance of show of enthusiasm. It is hardly likely women on public platforms has become usual, and it no longer provokes comment. that this line of conduct will affect the arbitrators, who are fortunately far re - Ladies I� of aristocratic title and fashionable moved from the influence of the jingo jour- eminence - are often seen" there, and are bale of the United Mates. At the outset known to the public the world over as rep- it was claimed on this side of the water resentatves of the highest and best worn - in a great advantage had been obtained anhood. A woman as the presiding officer iu the preliminary skirmish by the Ameri of a great convention has ceased to be a can representatives. An impartial survey novelly: Leading "women of society in of the situation published by the London London and New York have become public Times shows how ill-fo luded this assump- characters whose faces are photographed tion was. Four days, it appears, were like_ these of great statesmen, lending the spent in disposing of the preliminary mo- like charm of beauty to the gallery: of tions. The arguments of the American public eminence. Their portraits are scat- counsel were mainly directed towards tered-abroad for the delight and the refine- the exclusion of evidence, a most unfor- i33ent ,pf fhe people.' tunate position for a party . to an arbi- Meantime, .has the enlargement of the tration to take. What was more sig - "sphere of woman" impaired their gracious nificant, however, was the fact that influence, and has this escape from former part of - the evidence which the arbitrators. In this branch we excel Ordered or Ready-made it makes no -difference, 'Suits or SPRING OVERCOATS made on the shortest notice at the ROCK BOT- TOMEST price, and fits guaranteed —or no sale. In ORDERED CLOTHING we fit the LITTLE Men or BIG Men or men that .int men at all restraints lowered the tone of womanhood.were asked to strike. ctrl was to all intents and decreased the reverence -in which it is and purposes a statutory report to the held ? Never before were women so beauti- Government of the United States. The fnl; so lovable, so companionable, so-irre=f-decision that Prof Elliott's work was be- -sistible, and so influential as they are to -day, fore the tribunal to be made such use of as Both Morally;and physic .I!v,. woman are it 'should see fit was, according to the cor hruti'er now 'that at any' previous time in respondent. of the 'rimes, a victory for history. The consequences of their `° eman Great Britain -.The next move an the part erpafot," as it used to be called by the ,of the United States was an attempt to ex women's eights agitators, have proverb ;elude a supplementary report of the British altogether happy, instead -of' deplorable. Conitnissioners eppointed to enquire into seallite in They are more honored. and:•more honorableBehring Sea.The representives that} ever, more powerful, more fit to be of both nations had made a joint report, but the ,motl ers of a strong and noble race. as there were grave differences of opinion When, therefore, the time comes ;tat womenask for and receive the suffrage on a full equality with men,and it seems to be approw:thing, - we have no fear for the result. Theirs will be a gracious rule in 'rite State4.as it has been -a -gracious rule in society,_ Whatever they want of political privileges they can have, . and they will want nothing which they will not use for the benefit of the world. Whenever women_ adeptthe fashion of wearing the ;" little . engaged iii agriculture= fisheries and mining, unobtrusive yellow ribbon" emblematic of 29 in- professionalpursuits, 245 in domestic woman suffrage, it shall be.our 'badge -also, arcs po sonal:service,.39:in trade and. trans :poet, and279 in manufacturing and mechani- „ cat industries, The Most .vi ;cult Lang' sage in the World Corapsred`witli of r`eouutries,: Canada . A further .effort is Tieing made to encour- beeh=fewer.7 deaf and _dumb than ,Sweden,, age artily oicers-in Burnmh to study _ Chi- metria and. Switzerland, but more than -nese A reward was offered ten years ago, real Br it r, ance.-andGerinany. _ - , but no°of ger has ever claimed it. The prnposal now made is. to _melee the =reward -:Tie-blind-in Canada number_I,8 titales "'` pecs,apd that when an officer passes' and 1,029 fetes Females who are, an elementary examination in Chinese, and, l i are:86.5:-"to 100. blind ;;males. In _so -gives• earnest* his,:intention to become ranee to=every 100 Blind males there are a 'candidate for chis" reward,` he may be 76 morale s blind, in Prusaia 88, -Belgium 88, :granted -special leave on full;pay to Bhamo NortaLy .,108,'_, England - 85, Scotland`- 9s, for #ix Anonths, or to China :for one year,for irels.nd 104 t nade, Prussia; Embolden( .the purpose of studying t-helauguage. In Bel'Anne are ::Close to eseh other in . this India it is questioned whether one. year es'pect.. , •Clfina is,=an tient for the. study otthec moat• riy'60 per Bent. ofile blind -ire d are either iffmult"lasgu :ge in. the world between thein it was confined to such matters as they could agree upon. A sup- 1 1 o give the buyer figures that are right, plementary report was made by the British f When you read this little ad. And ou know you are wanted bad y To come and get our bargains out of sight - That's right, They are out of sight. Commissioners to as„a S. We have them for b5ys at 25. Men's Stiff, Lined at 90c and upwards. See them before you buy. A wagon load of Straw hats, made in sizes to fit everybody'. Pattern Tweeds at 35c and upwards. Braid.edl Dress Prints at 25c. and upwards. Also a number of other lines too numerous to mention but which we would ask you to kindly call • and inspect. When we hang our lithe sign You can bet we are in line, ret the arbitrators in determining` the. advisability of a mutual regulation of sealing in Behring Sea. This is, according to -the-: British contention, a question entirely apart from that of juristic.. tion. - The arbitr`a'tors=determined not to receive the docurfien t at that time formally, but to permit its use in oral arguments. As this was no more nor less than' the British council hadsuggested it difficult to con - f you ;cant get here away from the work here e'11 I ceive how it could be constructed: into' an American triumph. 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