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Printing and stereotyping of Braille books are carried on at many of the institutions. At Berlin large numbers of schoolbooks, magazines, and writing frames, etc., are produced, the semi-blind being employed in the work.

We cannot leave this subject of employment without alluding to the great help and encouragement which are given to the industries of the Continental institutions for the blind from the patronage and favor which they receive from the imperial and royal families, and from the spending departments of the state and municipality, including the army, navy, post office, hospitals, asylums, and many other public institutions.