HOSPITAL FOR BLIND SOLDIERS
CONTRIBUTION OF £7OOO BY LORD NUFFIELD A convalescent home, on the Sussex Downs, built by St. Dunstan’s last year for • the . care and treatment of blind soldiers, has been converted into a war hospital capable of taking 200 patients. A small but well-equipped operating theatre block containing the most upt-o-date ophthalmic and general theatres is about complete. The block, which will have cost with incidental expenses about £7OOO, was the gift of Lord Nuffield. The hospital is fully staffed, and surgeons and sisters from Moorfields, the famous London eye hospital, are in residence. Of 2750 blinded soldiers treated at St. Dunstan’s, England, after the Great War, about 2000 are still living, the average age being under 50. Professions and handicrafts were taught to enable the men to follow , lives as nearly normal as possible. The majority are married.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22894, 15 December 1939, Page 18
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