SAVING HER SIGHT
PLOUGHMAN'S BLIND CHILD TO HAVE OPERATION
A hundred-guinea operation to give a farm labourer's 12-year-old daughter her eyesight is to be performed by Mr Tudor Thomas, the famous eye specialist. The girl is Dorothy Joan Guppy. Her parents live at Ryme. Her case has attracted public attention because of the efforts to restore her sight at public expense. Last year Dorset Education Committee sent her to Mr Tudor Thomas for an examination. The surgeon reported that a grafting operation on the left eye would be justifiable, but warned Dorothy’s parents that there was a slight risk that she might lose the eye. The surgeon’s foe, it was stated, would bo 100 guineas, and hospital charges tor about live weeks £35 to £4O.
The Committee ordered inquiries to see if it could be done cheaper. A report issued later means that it has now been agreed that the AA’elsh surgeon should operate.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12318, 4 April 1938, Page 4
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