Rev. George Thom asked the synod in a letter
to pay attention to the education and care of
the deaf.
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Mr P.A. Cook is appointed as the sixth principal.
Division for the blind began and the school was renamed as ‘Instituut vir Doofstommen en Blinden’.
The first nursery school for the deaf is established in the Old Mill House (designed by Sir Herbert Baker) with 18 children.