Delegates of the Manchester and Yorkshire branches of the National Association of Blind Workers were welcomed on Saturday afternoon to their conference in Manchester by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Joseph Binns. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/08/call-to-train-british-guide-dogs-archive-1934 One of the most interesting addresses was that by Mr. Musgrave Frankland, secretary of the Liverpool branch of the National Institute for the Blind, who spoke on “Guide dogs for the blind.”
Guide to survival Mr. Frankland was the first blind person to use a guide dog in England. Germany, he explained, had State schools for the training of guide dogs; “L’oeil qui voit,” at Vevey, Switzerland, trained dogs for France and Italy, and there was also a school in the United States. Owing to quarantine difficulties dogs trained abroad could not be imported into England, but the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Training Committee had been formed to train dogs in this country. The dogs, he said, were not trained in the ordinary way. It would be more correct to say that they were educated. A working life: the guide dog trainer The Alsatian was the best dog in the world for the work. It was wrong to make pets of them. It was only when they became pets that they did savage things. Once it had been trained, a blind man could leave everything to the dog. A guide dog could not distinguish between the red and green lights of traffic signals, but that did not matter, because the dog followed the movement of the traffic itself, which was much more important. The Rev. David Griffiths, who presided, spoke of the kindness of sighted people to the blind, but he had one complaint which he made in the form of a suggestion. “People tell you,” he said, “that there are steps, but they do not tell you whether they are up or down.” -- सादर/ Regards अविनाश शाही/ Avinash Shahi सहायक/ Assistant मानव संसाधन प्रबंध विभाग/ Human Resource Management Department भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक/ Reserve Bank of India लखनऊ क्षेत्रीय कार्यालय/Lucknow RO विस्तार/ Extension: 2232 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
