one-hundred and fifty nine households. In the United States at this time the ratio
             of deaf was about one in six-thousand, but on the island of Martha's Vineyard it
             was one in every four were born deaf.
             The town of Chilmark had the highest population of deaf residents. But
             there was a significant amount of deaf people in all of the towns on the island.
             But the town of Gay Head was excluded because the population was almost all
             Indian. Edgartown had the lowest population of deaf individuals. The population
             of deaf started to dwindle as the years went by because there was high growth of
             education for the deaf on the mainland. This caused many of deaf children to
             move to the mainland and then marry individuals from the mainland. This had a
             high impact on the island because it caused the po
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