The Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital School at Canton, 1913 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Massachusetts Hospital School
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ISBN: 9781331181675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Excerpt from The Annual Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital School at Canton, 1913 The report of the superintendent here presented indicates the progress of the institution in usefulness during the past year. This is an added demonstration of the wisdom of the Commonwealth in the establishment of this institution five years ago, which in a comparatively short time has shown not only the need of schools of this kind, but also in what way children, handicapped by physical disabilities, may best be managed. It has been shown that in our Commonwealth a not inconsiderable number of children have been hitherto brought up without education, becoming illiterate owing to their physical inability to attend school, and that under proper management almost all these children can be educated so as to become useful and to a greater or less degree self-supporting. It has been shown that these cases need special provisions for education as to hours, curriculum and requirements, and that these should be combined with provisions for improvement of their physical condition and for surgical treatment. Fresh air is especially needed for these cases, and under the present management of the school the children enjoy the benefit of this under the most favorable conditions. This has been beneficial to their health in a marked degree, shown not only in an improved general condition but also in freedom from contagious diseases and colds, affections of the throat, glands and other complications. The value of the educational advantages in the school has been amply shown by those who have left the school, finding themselves fully equal to their healthier comrades whose education has been conducted in the public schools. 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.