TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
FORTY CHILDREN BLINDED.
ATHENS IN AN UPROAR. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 15. The “Daily Express’s” Athens correspondent reports a tragic story of 40 children who were blinded by a mistake at an eye clinic for children from Kesarion, near Athens. They were taken to have, their sight tested’. They were conducted to a room where a number of patients were being treated for infectious diseases. Attendants'in charge of the room immediately sprayed the children’s eves with syringes charged with powerful cauterising fluids. All the little victims were' permanently blinded. Athens was in an uproar, and the attitude of the populace was so menacing that the Minister of Health ordered the trial of all the oculists employed at the Clinic.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 81, 16 January 1930, Page 5
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