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Color. -- The number of white persons returned as blind is 56,535, of which 30,359 are totally blind and 26,176 are partially blind. The number of colored blind is 8,228. This includes 7,646 negroes, 568 Indians, and 14 Chinese or Japanese, which, in the tables, are grouped under the caption "colored." Of the 8,228 colored, 5,286 are totally blind and 2,942 partially blind. The numbers, with the percentages of each class, and the number per 100,000 of corresponding population are shown in Table III.
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The figures in the following table show that of the blind whites, 53.7 per cent are totally blind and 46.3 per cent are partially blind. Of the colored blind, the per cent totally blind is much greater, being 64.2; while the per cent partially blind is correspondingly less (35.8). The number of blind per 100,000 is greater in the colored population (89.6) than in the white (84.6). The number of totally blind per 100,000 is also greater among the colored than among the whites, but the number of partially blind per 100,000 is smaller.
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| STATE OR TERRITORY. | WHITE. | | | | | |
| Number: | | | Per 100,000 of population: | | |
| | The blind. | The totally blind. | The partially blind. | The blind. | The totally blind. | The partially blind. |
| Continental United States | 56,535 | 30,359 | 26,176 | 84.6 | 45.4 | 39.2 |
| North Atlantic division | 15,461 | 9,039 | 6,422 | 74.9 | 43.8 | 31.1 |
| New England | 4,793 | 2,750 | 2,043 | 86.7 | 49.7 | 37.0 |
| Maine: | 724 | 386 | 338 | 104.6 | 55.8 | 48.8 |
| New Hampshire | 417 | 262 | 155 | 101.5 | 63.8 | 37.7 |
| Vermont: | 454 | 246 | 208 | 132.4 | 71.7 | 60.7 |
| Massachusetts | 2,186 | 1,236 | 950 | 78.9 | 44.6 | 34.3 |
| Rhode Island | 275 | 174 | 101 | 65.6 | 41.5 | 24.1 |
| Connecticut | 737 | 446 | 291 | 82.6 | 50.0 | 32.6 |
| Southern North Atlantic | 10,668 | 6,289 | 4,379 | 70.6 | 41.6 | 29.0 |
| New York | 5,398 | 3,220 | 2,178 | 75.4 | 45.0 | 30.4 |
| New Jersey | 986 | 571 | 365 | 51.6 | 31.5 | 20.1 |
| Pennsylvania | 4,334 | 2,498 | 1,836 | 70.6 | 40.7 | 29.9 |
| West Virginia | 890 | 428 | 462 | 97.2 | 46.7 | 50.5 |
| South Atlantic division | 6,015 | 3,105 | 2,910 | 89.7 | 46.3 | 43.4 |
| Northern South Atlantic | 2,896 | 1,495 | 1,401 | 85.0 | 43.9 | 41.1 |
| Delaware | 123 | 63 | 60 | 79.9 | 40.9 | 39.0 |
| Maryland | 742 | 412 | 330 | 77.9 | 43.4 | 34.6 |
| District of Columbia | 123 | 72 | 51 | 64.2 | 37.6 | 26.6 |
| Virginia | 1,018 | 520 | 498 | 85.3 | 43.6 | 41.7 |
| West Virginia | 890 | 428 | 462 | 97.2 | 46,7 | 50.5 |
| Southern South Atlantic | 3,119 | 1,610 | 1,509 | 94.5 | 48.8 | 45.7 |
| North Carolina | 1,253 | 658 | 595 | 99.2 | 52.1 | 47.1 |
| South Carolina | 491 | 262 | 229 | 88.0 | 47.0 | 41.0 |
| Georgia | 1,161 | 598 | 563 | 98.3 | 50.6 | 47.7 |
| Florida | 214 | 92 | 122 | 71.9 | 30.9 | 41.0
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| North Central division | 22,658 | 11,882 | 10,776 | 87.9 | 46.1 | 41.8
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| Eastern North Central | 14,364 | 7,614 | 6,750 | 91.4 | 48.4 | 43.0
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| Ohio | 4,321 | 2,348 | 1,983 | 106.4 | 57.8 | 48.6 |
| Indiana | 2,934 | 1,474 | 1,460 | 119.3 | 59.9 | 59.4 |
| Illinois | 3,717 | 1,962 | 1,755 | 78.5 | 41.4 | 37.1 |
| Michigan | 1,911 | 1,024 | 887 | 79.7 | 42.7 | 37.0 |
| Wisconsin | 1,481 | 806 | 675 | 72.0 | 39.8 | 32.8 |
| Western North Central | 8,294 | 4,268 | 4,026 | 82.4 | 42.4 | 40.0 |
| Minnesota | 866 | 509 | 357 | 49.9 | 29.3 | 20.6 |
| Iowa | 1,998 | 1,008 | 990 | 90.0 | 45.4 | 44.6 |
| Missouri | 3,132 | 1,537 | 1,595 | 106.4 | 52.2 | 54.2 |
| North Dakota | 129 | 76 | 53 | 41.4 | 24.4 | 17.0 |
| South Dakota | 199 | 114 | 85 | 52.3 | 30.0 | 22.3 |
| Nebraska | 626 | 350 | 276 | 59.2 | 33.1 | 26.1 |
| Kansas | 1,344 | 674 | 670 | 94.9 | 47.6 | 47.3 |
| South Central division | 9,778 | 4,771 | 5,007 | 99.6 | 48.6 | 51.0 |
| Eastern South Central | 5,911 | 2,815 | 3,096 | 117.2 | 55.8 | 61.4 |
| Kentucky | 2,400 | 1,114 | 1,286 | 128.9 | 59.8 | 69.1 |
| Tennessee | 1,900 | 861 | 1,039 | 123.4 | 55.9 | 67.5 |
| Alabama | 1,039 | 544 | 495 | 103.8 | 54.3 | 49.5 |
| Mississippi | 572 | 296 | 276 | 89.2 | 46.2 | 43.0 |
| Western South Central | 3,867 | 1,956 | 1,911 | 81.1 | 41.0 | 40.1 |
| Louisiana | 520 | 318 | 202 | 71.3 | 43.6 | 27.7 |
| Arkansas | 1,271 | 556 | 715 | 134.6 | 58.9 | 75.7 |
| Indian Territory | 176 | 83 | 93 | 58.1 | 27.4 | 30.7 |
| Oklahoma | 217 | 96 | 121 | 59.0 | 26.1 | 32.9 |
| Texas | 1,683 | 903 | 780 | 69.3 | 37.2 | 32.1 |
| Western division | 2,623 | 1,562 | 1,061 | 67.7 | 40.3 | 27.4 |
| Rocky Mountain | 853 | 568 | 285 | 72.3 | 48.2 | 24.1 |
| Montana | 72 | 47 | 25 | 31.8 | 20.8 | 11.0 |
| Idaho | 68 | 47 | 21 | 44.0 | 30.4 | 13.6 |
| Wyoming | 16 | 9 | 7 | 18.0 | 10.1 | 7.9 |
| Colorado | 291 | 187 | 164 | 55.0 | 35.3 | 19.7 |
| New Mexico | 406 | 278 | 128 | 225.3 | 154.3 | 71.0 |
| Basin and Plateau | 258 | 148 | 110 | 64.4 | 36.9 | 27.5 |
| Arizona | 39 | 24 | 15 | 42.0 | 25.8 | 16.2 |
| Utah | 200 | 114 | 86 | 73.4 | 41.8 | 31.6 |
| Nevada | 19 | 10 | 9 | 53.7 | 28.3 | 25.4 |
| Pacific | 1,512 | 846 | 666 | 65.9 | 36.9 | 29.0 |
| Washington | 189 | 98 | 91 | 38.0 | 19.7 | 18.3 |
| Oregon | 203 | 114 | 89 | 51.4 | 28.9 | 22.5 |
| California | 1,120 | 634 | 486 | 79.8 | 45.2 | 34.6 |
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