Where the Blind Score

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 217, 17 September 1934, Page 5

Where the Blind Score

There is an interesting reminder of the fact that tliero is at least one profession in which it pays to bo blind in the opening recently by the Prince of Wales of a new clinje in London which is staffed by fully qualified blind masseurs and masseuses. A school of massage for the blind wits' started some .time ago by the National Institute for the Blind, the Institute for the Blind, the experience ( lithe;' countries having suggested that tins was a field in which' they cxj. in Japan indeed, masrge was

at one time a monopoly of blind people It was soon found that the new experiment was on tho right lines. The abnormally acute and sensitive touch which blindness develops helped the pupils at tho school to make rapid progress, and to-day the fully trained sightless masseurs, of whom tliero are about 200 in hospital appointments or private practice, are establishing a big reputation. The new clinic has been established as a memorial to the late Ur Alfred Eichholz, a formor Chief Medical Inspector of the Board of Education, who devoted a large part of his leisure after his retirement in 3030 to work for the L>Hnd.