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Evening Star, Issue 12865, 14 July 1906, Page 9

There are at least five towns besides London where a special department of boobs for the blind is kept up In connection with the free library. These are Liverpool, Birmingham, Penzance, Plymouth, and Wick. Liverpool, one of the oldest and most np-to-date of ail onr free libraries, eo far back as 1857, recognised the need of the blind for good literature, and has devoted a fair share of her 200,000 volumes bo these people, so shut off from many sources of pleasure. In consequence of the death of her mother, the Omagh Poor Law authorities have upon their hands a woman who, although forty-five years of ago, is in size and appearance like a 'child of seven or eight years. The woman was wrapped in a blanket and carried by on© of the officials in his arms to the infirm .-nj_