Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GREATER SOLIDARITY AND INTERCHANGE OF OPINION AMONG INSTITUTIONS; THE NEED OF A CENTRAL BUREAU; AND UNIFORM PLAN OF KEEPING ACCOUNTS. By W. H. Tate, Esq., A Member of the Committee of the Bradford Institution for the Blind. The Royal Commission of 1889, in bringing to a close its valuable labours on behalf of the Blind, made the following, as one of the closing suggestions :— We think " That there should be greater solidarity among the institutions, and interchange of information and opinion between them, so that they should work harmoniously together." The importance and value of this suggestion has been realized in some measure by all those having practical acquaintance with the management of institutions, but for the most part their energies have been concentrated upon the development of the special work with which they were personally connected, and there has been little opportunity for promoting any scheme for systematic interchange of opinion amongst institutions generally. It is gratifying to note, however, the much greater interest which many of the institutions now manifest in each other's welfare, and the readiness with which they co-operate to further the interests of the Blind. Doubtless, the visits of managers and deputations making tours of inspection, for the purpose of seeing what other institutions were doing, have greatly helped to bring about this state of affairs, and to promote the spirit of mutual helpfulness and good-will which now exists. The interchange of opinion thus obtained, although of limited extent, has been of considerable advantage to the institutions concerned, and has distinctly tended to advance the character and efficiency of their work. It may, therefore, be anticipated with confidence, that the arrangement of syste...