WAR AND BLINDNESS
NEED FOR ST. DUNSTAN'S
FRESH CASES OCCURRING
(From "The Post's" Representative.) , LONDON, August 18. The public grieve to hear that today, nearly fifteen years after the end of the war, ex-soldiers arc losing their sight, and the cause can directly be- attributed to the effect of the war. By 1919, it was known that some 1500, men of the Empire forces had been blinded, and since then 500 more ex-service- men have lost* their sight through the effects of shrapnel wounds, gas poisoning, or other causes.- Cases are on record of soldiers having apparently completely recovered after being in a gas attack; yet years later the gas has brought on blindness.
"When the last war-blinded man dies," says "The Times," "St. Dunstan's'will have done its work; but St. Dunstan's will bo needed for a long time to come. And, unhappily, its responsibilities are not, as might be- expected, decreasing. During one comparatively recent period 31 blinded soldiers died, but 33 new, cases of exservice men having becomo blind since 1918 were forthcoming. In every instance their sight had at length failed as a result of war service. It is feared that this may go on for years, for in 1918 and later over 30,000 men were- discharged from the Forces suffering from, partial loss of sight." _
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 14
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219WAR AND BLINDNESS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 14
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