Concern about world’s blind

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33092, 6 December 1972, Page 19

Concern about world’s blind

(N.Z. Press Ann.- Copyright) GENEVA, Dec. 5. The number of blind S'e in the world will e by the year 2000 if strong measures for treatment and prevention are not taken, the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind says, adding that 80 per cent of the world’s 15 million blind live in developing countries where the most urgent care and preventive measures are “These people receive no official help, but live by begging, or depend entirely on their families,” the W.C.W.B. says. "Much of the blindness, particularly that affecting 80,000 infants because of malnutrition, could be prevented.” The organisation says that more than one million blind people, including 50,000 children, live in Bangladesh, where 300.000 adults lost their sight during the war of last December. Aust. wool sales There was a 100 per cent clearance to the trade on the second day of the Svdnev wool sale today, when 15.546 bales were offered. All classes of wool were in the seller’s favour. At Launceston, 14,300 bales were sold, all classes realising 10c oer kilo dearer than the Sydney sale yesterday.