There will shortly be issued to the public the annual report of the Institution for the Chinese Blind, which, after three years' good work in North Szechuen Road Extension, is now housed in eminently suitable buildings in Edinburgh Road. If work of the institution will need scarcely any better commendation. Founded rather over three years the present superintendent, Mr. G. ago by Dr. John Fryer, father of
B. Fryer, the institution has about twenty inmates ranging from the quite young to the stalwart youth, all of whom by their animated expressions, bear eloquent testimony to the good that is being done them.
The new buildings comprise classrooms demitones, bath-house, kitchens and laundry, together with a basket-work room, all of which are well laid out, light and airy. They are situated in a large compound providing plenty of space for recreation which the inmates, unlike the average apathetic blind, delight in. The congenial atmosphere created by their pleasant surroundings. enables the boys to take full advantage of the tuition inven them, and the strides that some of them have made in three years are astonishing as they are real.
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