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TYRELL, ESQ., Warden of York and Peel. WM. LESLIE, " f Wellington. ROBT. MILLER, " «* '*'- Halton. WM. MERCER WILSON, ESQ., " Norfolk. T. R. FERGUSON, ESQ., M. P. P.i Bimcoe. J. fi. THOMPSON, " Warden Ontario. ALEXANDER BROWN, Esq., " ' Wentworth. Middlesex. WM. PIERS, " " ^Oxford. R.R. SMITH, » " Lanark. SHERIFF HALL, President Aoziliaxjr Society, Peterboro.' Gentlemen,— In presenting yom with my Sixth Annnal Report, I feel I have a pleasing duty to perform — a duty which loudly calls forth from me a hearty acsnowledgment of the goodness and mercy of God, for the remarkable alyancement in prosperity and usefulness of the Institution during the past year. The number of pupils in the Toronto School, under the late Superintendent, at the c)ose of the year 18G3, was fourteen ; indeed the largest number in attendance since the opening of the School, in June, 1868, was only twenty-four, while during the past year there were fifty-three pupils in attendance, forty-seven of whom are deaf mutes and six blind. This lai'ge increase, added to the equally pleasing fact that we are free from debt, are, of themselves, convincing proofs that our iistltution is in a very prosperous condition. arc) THE BUILDINGS. The buildings which we occupy, known as the "Florence Hotel," contaiu fifty-four rooms, all of which, with the exception of six small bed-rooms in the wing, have been throughly repaired at my own expense ; the boys doing the carpentry, glazing, whitewashing, &c. This very commodious building, facilitates the separation of the sexes, and classification of the pupils. The means of escape in case of fire are all that the most cautiously timid could desire ; two stairways leading to verandahs in front and rear, giving easy means of speedy escape in case of danger. The consumption of wood to heat soiarge abuilding forms quite an item in the yearly expenses. The play ground is too limited to allow sufficient exercise for the pupils. To remedy this, they walk out in the country three times a week, and skate daily on a rink made at the rear of the house. HEALTH OF PUPILS. The precautionary measures taken to preserve the health of the pupils — cleanliness, open-air exercise, early rising, plenty of nouse-work, and above all, a liberal scale of dietary, have fully realized our most sanguine expectations, as is evident from the pleasing fact, that with the exception of eruption in the skin in one case, we have not had, since our arrival in Hamilton, a single case of sickness. WOEK PBEFOEMBD BY PUPILS. ... • i . ' .0 THE aiBLS. > Have made all the bed-tieks, sheets, pillow-cases, window-blinda, mended boys' clothes, and, assisted by a cook, and on two days of the week a laundress, done the whole work of the establishment before and after school hours. ' THE BOYS. Have done, in a workmanlike manner, one thousand three huridted and eighty square yards of whitewashing, converted ^wo thottsand eight hundred feet of timber into school-room, dining-room, kitchen, and store-room -fiirnitufe ; made a new roof over kitchen, containing eighteen square yards; repaired and shingled roof over Bchool-rbom, nine and one half square yards, repaired fifty window-;,, sashes and twenty-three blinds, and put in eighty-two panes of glass, They have done the work for which a contract was put in for §600.. Th(i cost to nic was aboMt 370 for mntcrial. The habits of industry thus promoted, and the economy obscrved.-will be produc- tive of lasting benefit? to th^ pupils. I juay fairly ascribo om: siiccbss in carrying this indu!>tria1 spirit into practical operation to the mutual harmony and love subaisting between teachers and pii])ils, the social intercourse between wiiom, calls forth from every observant visitor appreciative approval. There has not been in the establishment a single ill-behavcd boy, nor an ill-dispositioned girl. One girl, however, I was reluctantly obliged to discharge as a dangerous idiot. SYSTEM OP INSTRUCTION PURSUED. In my Fourth Annual Report, I referred to the system of instruction pursued in the States of America, quoting an extract from the preface of the 3rd Book of Lessons for the Deaf and Dumb, compiled by Dr. Peet, who writes thus : — " It is not what the pupil merely commits to memory of an evening, and nearly or quite for- gets it before he has practical occasion to vise it, but what he ivell remembers, and can recall and apply at his need, that is the true measure of his progress." From this we may infer that the pupils of the New York Institution memorize language and reproduce it. I would say that such a system does not approximate with the order and method nature has designed for the speaking child to acquire his mother tongue. We aim in the Hamilton School to assimilate the process used in teaching language to the deaf-mute— in his case a language addressed to the eye — to the process by which the little child, possessed of the faculties of hearing and of speech, acquires language when addressed to the ear. To memorize language and reproduce it in other combinations tend to stultify the intellect, and expose either deaf-mute or illiterate speaking person to the laughter of others, for example : A Clergy- man at an Irish wedding requested the bridegroom " to extinguish the candle" Soon afterwards Paddy asked his bride "to extinguish the cat " A celebrated French theologian, dining with a gentleman in Edinburgh, was asked to partake of pickled salmon, and on enquiry as to the meaning of the word "pickle," was told it meant preserved. On the following Sunday evening, when occu- pying the pulpit in Dr. Ghalmer's church, and while offering the usual prayer, asked the Lord " to long pickle Dr. Chalmers for his congregation." It is one thing to have a fluency of words to ex- press our thoughts and feelings, and quite another to have clearly defined ideas attached to them. The following extract forms the first five lines of a letter received by me from a deaf-mute young man who had been 10 years at school, and had been engaged as a teacher of deaf-mutes not 40 miles from this city : '"* "April!. 1864. * " DsAR Sir,— If some days ago I had not been at a loss when asked to see you next Saturday. P.M., I would not have answered in the position, but have begged you to excuse me from it" I woiild give the letter in full, did not tlie tmter re^tiest m^ " tQ keep this private as long as ^ou may live." I give a specimen of what I call the naturai system followed in our School. I'he writer, a girl sixteen years of age, and deaf froia early infancy, was not .three years under instruction. ' '. Homer, August tth. 1864. Dear Teacher, — I write to you again. You did not answer. I got a letter from my papa tiint T nm going home on 17th of Auxust- Tou roust write to me very soon. We went to Niagara Falls. I wondered to see it. I was very much afraid of Falls. It was very nice— I never saw it before, I would like to live there. Mids B came from Niagara and see me, I talked to hor, I was very glad to see her. I will get photographs taken to-day or to-morrow. I have 14 photograpiis in rov Album. Peter and Doctor E , I am proud of them. I am going nnd visit Miss P . to day. I often take a walk with Peter and see the Cemetry every Simday. We are not living with Peter, he is clerking store in St. Cathoriiies bo comes and see us every Sunday. I will go home and you will send my trunk to me next Monday. Let me know it will go to Giielph Station next Monday. My Uncle, Aunt and Couaius do not wish me to go home, they are very sorry. Is Minnie well ? and did she go home, tell Hattie and Miss Cecilia give me tlieir photographs. I would like to see thecp. How are you? tell them to give my love to tiicm. Did some deaf and dumb pupils write to you. My Cousin Willie is very, very sick, I am very sorry. He is sleeping In bed now. Did Mrs McGann and her children go and see their moth' r When will you go and visit your friends. Did you go and se« the Falls. I send my love to you all. Write to me to-day. ■,,••.,,,'- •;• Good-bye. Miss E. McQakk, M AGQIE SMITH, Toronto. Homer P.O. Mr. Jackson, M.P.P., is well acquainted with the girl who wrote the above. He can certify that she was not three years under instruction. Mr. McFarlane, M.P.P. for Perth, may certify that he entered into a long and lively conversation with one of the female pupils of this Institution, three and a half years at school, who had also been deaf from birth, and that her answers to various ques- tions put by him.exhibited powers of discrimination and grammatical accuracy equal, if not superior to girls of her age, and her time at school, and in possession of all their faculties. I should not have particularized these cases were I not informed that the late Superintendent produced a written statement from Dr. Peet, to certain members of the Executive Government to the effect that I was not qualified for the position which, for nearly seven years, I have occupied. In my first Annual Report, Rev. Dr. McCaul writes thus : " Whilst referring to the Instruction whichhas been given, your Committee think it due to Mr. McGann to state their satisfaction with the results of his teachipg, evincing as they do. a progress at once sound and rapid." In the second Annual Report, the then Secretary (the late Rev. Thomas Smith Kennedy,) testifies as follows. " The Committee deftire to record their continued eatiBfaction with the solid progreM which has been made by the pupils ; and which reflects great credit on Mr. McGann, and the Assistant Teachers. The late visit of their Secretary, to England, has enabled them to compare this progress with that of the pupils of institutions long established in the United Kingdom, and the result of that comparison is highly favourable to the system of instruction adopted in this school The Superintendent in his report writes that " the progress made by the pupils generally, is highly satisfactory, and reflects great credit on the Master and Assistant Teachers." In the third Annual Report, it is written : " The Committee have much pleasure in expressing th