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The Prevention of Blindness: Report
Excerpt from The Prevention of Report
The authors and the Executive Committee of the International Association take this opportunity of expressing their thanks to all those who have so cour teous answered their request for information. Special mention must be made of the Health Organization of the League of Nations whose work has frequently been referred to in the first part of this report. The latest and remarkable enquiry of the League of Nations dealt with the welfare of the blind in various countries, but the authors themselves declare that the causes and prevention of blindness did not come within the scope of their work. However the data they have collected as to the enormous number of blind persons and the difficulties met with by Governments in dealing with their precarious situation are a new token that the work undertaken by the Inter national Association for the Prevention of Blindness corresponds to a real need. There can be no duplication of work with existing organizations for the welfare of the blind since the Association has an altogether different pro~ prevention. The Association intends in the first instance to unite the efforts of all who are willing to help in preventing accidents and disease from making new victims, in bringing about a decrease in the number of the blind, in two words, in protecting and preserving eyesight.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The authors and the Executive Committee of the International Association take this opportunity of expressing their thanks to all those who have so cour teous answered their request for information. Special mention must be made of the Health Organization of the League of Nations whose work has frequently been referred to in the first part of this report. The latest and remarkable enquiry of the League of Nations dealt with the welfare of the blind in various countries, but the authors themselves declare that the causes and prevention of blindness did not come within the scope of their work. However the data they have collected as to the enormous number of blind persons and the difficulties met with by Governments in dealing with their precarious situation are a new token that the work undertaken by the Inter national Association for the Prevention of Blindness corresponds to a real need. There can be no duplication of work with existing organizations for the welfare of the blind since the Association has an altogether different pro~ prevention. The Association intends in the first instance to unite the efforts of all who are willing to help in preventing accidents and disease from making new victims, in bringing about a decrease in the number of the blind, in two words, in protecting and preserving eyesight.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
118 pages, Paperback
Published December 10, 2017
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