| | | |
| The blind | 64,763 | 8629 | 2338 | 46,759 | 7037 |
| Totally blind | 35,645 | 4378 | 1215 | 25,349 | 3703 |
| Partially blind | 29,118 | 4251 | 1123 | 20,410 | 3334 |
+---------------------+--------+----------+----------+---------+-------+
|Parents cousins-- | | | | | |
| The blind | 2,527 | 844 | 149 | 1,456 | 78 |
| Totally blind | 1,291 | 435 | 78 | 739 | 39 |
| Partially blind | 1,236 | 409 | 71 | 717 | 39 |
+---------------------+--------+----------+----------+---------+-------+
|Parents not cousins--| | | | | |
| The blind | 53,980 | 7395 | 2095 | 43,368 | 1122 |
| Totally blind | 29,892 | 3720 | 1090 | 24,541 | 541 |
| Partially blind | 24,088 | 3675 | 1005 | 18,827 | 581 |
+---------------------+--------+----------+----------+---------+-------+
|Consanguinity of par-| | | | | |
| ents not stated-- | | | | | |
| The blind | 8,256 | 390 | 94 | 1,935 | 5837 |
| Totally blind | 4,462 | 223 | 47 | 1,069 | 3123 |
| Partially blind | 3,794 | 167 | 47 | 866 | 2714 |
+---------------------+--------+----------+----------+---------+-------+

Sweden.

The number of blind persons in Sweden, according to the census of
December 1880, was 3723, being at the rate of one blind person for
every 1226 of the general population. At the beginning of the year
1879, the instruction of the blind in Sweden was completely separated
from that of the deaf and dumb, on the grounds that it hindered the
intellectual development of the blind--a conclusion which experience
shows to be tolerably correct. Since July 1888 the Royal Institution
of the Blind has obtained a new building at Tomteboda, near Stockholm.

Norway.

The law of the 8th of July 1881, concerning the instruction of
abnormal children, has imposed on the state the duty of establishing a
sufficient number of schools for the blind in Norway as well as for
the other abnormal children. All the blind of the country, from 9
years o