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Exclusive of ordinary illness the U. S. has about 75,000 blind, 45,000 deaf and dumb, 300,000 mental defectives, 700,000 persons crippled so that they cannot earn their living. Maintaining those handicapped individuals costs $100,000,000 yearly. Deaths from tuberculosis cause a national loss of $1,500,000,000 yearly. Taxpayers yearly pay $800,000,000 to support tubercular victims, $90,000,000 for heart cases, $37,000,000 for the physically handicapped?a total...
Heredity is an important cause of hardness of hearing or total deafness. Some children are born deaf and dumb. Others seem to have a "nervous deafness." Dr. Emil Amberg of Detroit noted that this "nervous deafness" is "in the upper ranks of society much more frequently in females than in males. The subjects of it are generally of a sallow complexion, of a phlegmatic disposition, with a thin, cold skin and languid circulation...
...Deafness has mental effects which psychiatrists have hardly investigated. Dr. Ruth Brickner of the Child Study Association made an attempt. The person born deaf has his "psychological equilibrium fairly stable from the beginning except that its centre of gravity is determined by forces somewhat different from those of the hearing man." But the deaf person who for years could hear, endures a "psychological amputation." Emotional maladjustment develops, in two typical clinical pictures. The victim becomes depressed or he becomes suspicious. Both types result from primitive rage and hatred in the unconscious mind?in one case by rage and hatred...
Most laymen working to help the deaf are themselves hard of hearing. They include Starling Winston Childs, Manhattan banker; Adolph Bloch, Manhattan corporation lawyer; Norman Fraser, Chicago, retired; Mr. Justice A. Rives Hall, Montreal; Judge Simon Bass, St. Louis; Mrs. James Flack Norris, Boston; Mrs. James Rudolph Garfield, Cleveland daughter-in-law of the late President, wife of the 1907-09 Secretary of Interior. Also a worker for deaf people, though not herself aurally inefficient, is Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...
...small and portable. He sells them cheaply, will sell them more cheaply when he makes them in greater quantities. With one of his devices the speaker places the transmitter against any part of his head or throat; ensuing sounds are louder than if he spoke into the transmitter. A deaf person can put the receiver to any part of his skull or spine, and hear perfectly through his bones...