OCCUPATIONS. 571 



enjoy the charity of tlie State. Tlie insane belong not only to the de- 

 fective, but also to the dangerous classes, and if the opinion now growing 

 among jurists is well founded, that the delinquent classes are largely 

 recruited from these defectives when neglected, the State, taking the 

 greatest care of its insane, may hope, in a measure, to be freed from the 

 incalculably greater burdens of criminals. In 1880, while there were 

 ooO criminals in the insane asylums of the Union, there Avere none of 

 this class in the State Asylum at Columbia. 



By the tenth census, only 29 per cent, of the colored insane of the 

 United Slates were receiving treatment, while 32 per cent, of this class 

 in South Carolina were the recipients of State charity. This percentage 

 is doubtless very largely increased since, a-, of the increase at the State 

 Asylum, in 1882, the whites were 27 and the colored 33 ; and while the 

 census makes only 132 colored at the Columbia Asylum on the 1st of 

 June, 1880, Dr. Griffi:i reports 220 colored patients present on the 31st of 

 October, 1882. Thus the numerous charges brought against the people 

 of this State, of the ill-treatment of this race, is not sustained by the care 

 of these helpless unfortunates. 



The increase in the number of 



IDIOTS, 



in conseciuence of the more accurate enumeration made by the tenth 

 census, is about the same in South Carolina as in the United States. Of 

 the 1,588 in the State, 7 are foreigners, and 782 are colored, including 2 

 Indians. There are no training schools for idiots in South Carolina, but 

 51 of these unfortunates are charitably maintained in the State asylums 

 and alms houses. 



THE BLIND AND DEAF MUTES. 



Of the 1,100 blind in South Carolina, GG9, or a little more than GO per 

 cent., are colored. Of the oGl deaf mutes, the larger proportion are 

 whites, there being only 263, or about 46 per cent., negroes. The South 

 Carolina Institution for the Education of the Blind, Deaf and Dumb, at 

 Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County, was educating, in 1880, 16 blind and 

 50 deaf mutes. The institution is maintained by the State, and prior to 

 its foundation, as early as 1831, the Legislature made an annual appro- 

 priation for sending deaf and dumb children to the Hartford school. 



PAUPERISM 



is an evil so slightly developed in South Carolina as to be of small con- 

 cern. The comparative status of the State is most truly shown in this 

 regard by the census of 1880, in which the number of paupers in alms 



