Girl “Sees” After 18 Years
/ Almost blind from birth, Miss Alice Margaret Vernall, aged 18, of Queen’sroad, Walthamstow, has always dreamed that she would be able to see one day. Now her belief is coming true, after a delicate operation at the Royal Eye Hospital, S.E. The cornea from the eye of a London postman, whose complaint made it inevitable that he would lose it, was removed and grafted on to hers at the hospital.
She was told that there was a “slender chance" of the operation being successful. Now, nine weeks afterwards, she can read one and a-half inch letters, distinguish the colours of many fabrics, and see a person’s hand moved in front of her face.
Hitherto she has never been able to go out in the street alone, but in a few weeks she hopes to be able to see objects clearly enough to make it safe to walk about.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 237, 7 October 1936, Page 16
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