I'MTKI) STATUS ci:\ 



Deaf. In accordance with the recommendations 

 of a special committee of American instructors of 

 the deaf, it was decided to collect information for 

 the eleventh census with regard to all persons in 

 the United States, excluding Chinese, Japanese, and 

 civilized Indians, reported as being so deaf as to be 

 unable to hear loud conversation, whether they 

 were able to speak or not. The number of such 

 persons on June 1, 1890, was 121.178, of whom 80,- 

 616 were able to speak but were so deaf as to be 

 unable to hear loud conversation : Males, 49,278 ; 



females. 31.338 : whites. 77.308 : negroes. 3.308. Of 

 the 80.616. 521 were from five to ten years of g 

 3.142 were from ten to twenty years of age. 2 

 were between twenty and fifty years of age. and 

 4X227 were fifty years of age and over. Those not 

 able to speak numbered 40.562 : Males. 22.411 : fe- 

 males, 18.151 : native whites, ls.281 males and 14.- 

 997 females : foreign whites. 2.-'!5* males and 1.811 

 females : negmes. 1.772 males and 1 343 females. 



Blind. The total number of blind in the United 

 States on June 1, 1890, was 50,568 : Whites, 43,351 ; 



