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Excerpt from The Blind in the United States: 1910 This report presents the results of the ninth decen nial enumeration of the blind population of the United States, made in connection with the Thir teenth Decennial Census of population. It consists of four parts, the first giving the main facts in regard to the total blind population enumerated the second comprising a more intensive study for the blind persons who returned a special schedule of inquiry which was sent out to every individual re ported as blind by the population enumerators, the third presenting in the form of general tables the primary figures which furnish the principal basis for the textual discussion and analytical tables in the two preceding parts, and the fourth containing a summary of the laws of the various states relating to the blind and the prevention of blindness. The enumeration of the blind population of the United States has formed a regular feature of Federal census activities for a longer continuous period of time than any other inquiry except the decennial enumeration of the population which is required by the Constitution and out of which the present Bureau of the Census, with its manifold branches of investi gation, has developed; and even in the case of the general population the fundamental facts of sex, color, and age are the only subjects concerning which the statistics extend further back in unbroken series than do those of the blind. Furthermore, the United States appears to have been the first country to make an official enumeration of the blind, and it is practically certain that it was the first to make such an enumera tion a permanent part of its official statistical activi ties. Beginning with the Fifth Decennial Census, in 1830, an enumeration of the blind inhabitants of the United States has been made in connection with each population census, the census covered by the present report (that of 1910) thus constituting, as already indicated, the ninth at which statistics in regard to this class of the population have been secured. 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.