FORTY CHILDREN BLINDED.
MISTAKE IN A CLINIC.
INDIGNATION IN ATHENS.
OCULISTS TO BE TRIED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,
(Received January 16, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 15.
The Athens correspondent of the Daily Express reports a tragic story of how 40 children were blinded by mistake at an eye clinic.
The children, who came from Kesarion, near Athens, were taken to have their sight tested. They were conducted to a room where a number of patients were being treated for infectious diseases. The attendants in charge of the room immediately sprayed tha children's eyes with syringes charged with powerful cauterising fluids. All the little victims were permanently blinded. The people of Athens were in an uproar, and the attitude of the populace was so menacing that the Minister of Health, M. Emmanouilides, has ordered the trial of all the oculists employed at the clinic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20465, 17 January 1930, Page 11
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