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FORTY CHILDREN BLINDED ATHENS CITIZENS INCENSED TRAGIC MISTAKE IN CLINIC CAUTERISING FLUID IN EYES k By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 15. Forty children were permanently blinded owing to a tragic mistake at an eye clinic at Athens yesterday. Their eyes were sprayed with caustic fluids used in the infectious disease department. Athens is in an uproar. The children from Kesarion, near Athens, were taken to have their sight tested. They were conducted to a room where 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 were permanently blinded. ’
The attitude of the incensed populace was so menacing that the Minister of Health ordered the trial of all the oculists employed at the clinic.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1930, Page 9
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