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Workshop For Adults

From: Fifty-Third Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts School For The Blind
Creator: n/a
Date: 1885
Publisher: Wright & Potter, Boston
Source: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library

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6. WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS:

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This department has continued to suffer during the past year, in common with most industrial enterprises.

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The expenditures for the year amount to $16,621 50
Decrease of stock and debts due Oct. 1st, 1884, 54 50
$16,676 00
The receipts for the year amount to 15,909 04
$766 96

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Thus the cost of carrying on the workshop, over and above the receipts, has been $766.96.

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The loss to the treasury of the institution, compared with that of the previous year, has been increased by $210.69.

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This department is not so extensively patronized as such a business should be. Nor is the quality of its work duly appreciated, except by a few families which have for years bought all their mattresses, etc., here, by decided preference on the ground of better quality than they find elsewhere. For these reasons the shop has become a burden to the institution. But its utility in keeping so many meritorious blind persons out of the almshouses is so evident that no one questions it. It would seem that some new means should be devised for keeping its claims, too apt to be forgotten, more constantly before the public.

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We ask for increase of patronage on business principles, and not for charity.

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