TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
FORTY CHILDREN BLINDED
ERROR OP ATHENS EYE CLINIC
(Received listh January, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, 15tli January. The "Daily Express's" Athens correspondent reports a tragic story of forty children blinded by mistake in the Eye Clinic for children at Kesariou, near Athens. They were taken to have their sight tested, and conducted to a room where a number of patients were being treated for infectious diseases. The attendants in charge of the room immediately sprayed the children's eyes "■with syringes charged with powerful cauterising fluids. All the little victims . are permanently blinded. Athens raised an uproar, and the attitude of the populace was so menacing that the Minister of Health ordered the trial of all the oculists employed in tlio clinic.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 14
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122TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 14
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