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Supplemental Schedules for the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes.

Inhabitants in ...(see below)..., in the County of ...Livingston..., State of ...Illinois...

enumerated June, 1880

Deaf-Mutes

"The object of this Supplemental Schedule is to furnish material not only for a complete enumeration of deaf-mutes, but for an account of their condition. It is important that every inquiry respecting each case be answered as fully as possible. Enumerators will, therefore, after making the proper entries upon the population schedule (No. 1), transfer the name (with Schedule page and number) of every deaf-mute found to Schedule No. 1 to this Special Schedule and proceed to ask the additional questions indicated in the headings of the several columns. Care must be taken not to enumerate persons who are deaf only (hard of hearing) or dumb only (tongue-tied) as deaf-mutes. A deaf-mute is one who cannot speak, because he cannot hear sufficiently well to learn to speak. Enumerators may obtain valuable hints as to the number of deaf-mutes, and their residence, from physicians who practice medicine in their respective districts, also from school-teachers. Great assistance may be derived from questions addressed to deaf-mutes themselves: Do you know any deaf-mutes in this neighborhood? The class feeling of the deaf and dumb, arising from their isolated state is so great that they seek each other out for the sake of companionship and ordinarily know every deaf-mute for miles around."

		Name	Residence when at home (Note A)	Is he self- supporting, or partly so (Note B)	Age at which deafness occurred (Note C)	Supposed cause of deafness, if known	Is this person semi- mute/ semi-deaf (Note D)	Has this person ever been an inmate of an institution for deaf-mutes	Is this person also insane, idiotic or blind
Amity
18	23	Carrall, Emerson J		yes	2	cerebro spinal fever		no
27	23	Evansin, Regina		yes	B			Jacksonville for 18 m
Broughton
3	16	Johnson, Jonathan	(no further information provided)
13	37	Lyans, Thomas	(no further information provided)
Fayette
2	47	Fields, Caroline	(no further information provided)
Indian Grove
14	39	Gellters, Dunat	(no further information provided)
13	5	Moore, Jonathon	(no further information provided)
5	24	Hughes, Mary	(no further information provided)
Waldo
5	1	Zehr, Andrew	(no further information provided)
Union
16	16	Eggenberger, John	(no further information provided)
Rooks Creek
13	2	Edenfield, John	(no further information provided)
Pontiac
41	3	McDowell, Julia W		no	1	Cerebro Spinal Menegitis	semi semi	Jacksonville for 3yrs
Long Point
8	8	Swift, Robert	(no further information provided)

Notes:

Note A: A deaf-mute may be found either at his own home or away from it in some educational institution, asylum or poor-house. In the latter case, his residence when at home must be stated, in order that he may be accredited to the State or county to which he properly belongs so that the county in which the institution is situated may not be charged with more than its due proportion of deaf-mutes.

Note B: If self-supporting, say "yes" if partly self-supporting, say "partly: if not, say "no". Indicate all inmates of institutions who are maintained or treated at their personal expense (not at the expense of any town, county or State, nor of the institution) by the word "Pay"

Note C: If a deaf-mute from birth, say "b"; if not, state the age at which deafness occurred. Special pains should be taken to indicate all deaf-mutes from birth.

Note D: The word "semi-mute" has a technical meaning, and denotes a deaf-mute who lost his or her hearing after having acquired at least a partial knowledge of spoken language. Some semi-mutes retain the ability to speak imperfectly, others lose it entirely. If a deaf-mute has ever learned to speak, he is a semi-mute (unless he was artificially taught to speak in an institution for deaf-mutes) By a semi-deaf person is meant one who cannot hear sufficiently well to comprehend what is said to him, but who hears very loud sounds, such as thunder, &c

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