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Show 0 THE LEADER. Tremonion. Utah NEW NON FICTION BOOKS AT PUBLIC LIBRARY Our Virgin Island By Robb White Creative Home Decorating New Revised deluxe edition by Hazel and Julius Caves of Adventure By Haroun Tazieff t Oii ocate ria A i i Lis-sc- r. e. 0. 7 ht following u one of a series oj articles written by members of the Utah State Medical A mu tation and published in cooperation with your local newspaper. These articles are scheduled to appear every other eek throughout the year in an effort to better acquaint you with problems of health, and designed to improve the of the people of Utah. g Accidents to Eyes Accidents take heavy toll in eve- sight each year. At least ninety per cent of these accidents are pre ventable. Were we, as adults, to cooperate in eliminating from the the playthings of children such agents as airguns, flippers, darts, slingshots, bow and arrow, pointed scissors, pocket knives with pointed blades, and other similar instrum nts, we Bhould automatically pre vent a large percentage of accidents destroying vision. The popgun, even though its missile is on a string and sharply limited in range, is responsible for a fair number of injuries that cause hemorrhage into the eye and often result in marked loss of vision. Blunt hurts of the eye are of serious importance, especially where they cause bleeding into it If not cared for promptly by someone trained in eye diseases and who knows what should be done, they frequently cause serious loss of sight, if not the eye. Such injury, which does not produce hemorrhage, may later brine: cataract. It may also cause iritis, a painful inflammation of the eye, or even separation (detachment) of the retina. -- Wounds of the eyelids are fre quent, m these times of daily motor car accidents. When the lids are cut or torn, failure to repair the wound properly may result in notching of the lid edges, ing scars, sagging of the lids, in ability to close the eye. or leaking of tears over the face. Injury to the front of the eye is often done by simple foreign bodies that get in between the lids. These may be of such material as will scratch the transparent cornea and produce painful ulcers, or they may be barbed spines, tike that of the burdock, which becomes fastened in the lid and plow into the delicate surface every time the lid is opened or closed, the natural tendency- - we all have to rub an ye when anything gets into it adds fuel to the fire and make worse the harmful results, as well as increases the pain and distress. If we could be made to realize this and keep fingers away from an eye that gets something In it. we should help much In lessening tissue damage and In promoting This precaution Erompt recovery. important if one Is so unfortunate as to get the hair? from a caterpillar Into the eye. because the rubbing will start these lid-wa- rp r-- i i i will be able to finance a school! operating program of approximately $5,213 per distribution! unit wnnout resorting to a special election. If the voters approve at a special election the district's budget could be as high as $5,905 per distribution unit. Utah Foundation calculations show that Box Elder district financial school operating program equal to that of 1953-5with a decrease of 0.1 mills in the combined state and local property tax levy. The maximum without a special election could be financed in Box Elder district with an increase of 1.0 ! tor ."4) school year. aid Additional slate schools by the recent special Foundation officials have ansession of the Legislature will nounced that a copy f this re-- , total $43,39S or approximate port will be offered without 1:1 SI 98 per distribution unit charge from Utah Foundation, Box Elder school district, it was 400 Darling Building;, Salt Lake estimated this week by Utah City Foundation According to the Utah FounThis estimated allotment is dation study, school operating Box Elder's fortion of funds for the 1953 54 school transferred from the year equaled $4,829 per dis Mine Occupation Tax Reserve tribution unit in Box Elder dis Fund in order to provide in- trict prior to the special session creased operating funds for the Under the new legislation remainder of the current (1953- - enacted, the district next year a grave and stubborn inflammatory process for which there is as vet no adequate treatment The most dangerous materials that get into the eye by accident are lye, lime, strong acids and indelible copying pencil lead. Fresh cement or concrete, because of its lime content, is also a seriously damaging agent. Greater care should be observed by workmen to avoid splashing plaster, mortar and other such preparations, thus preventing a common type of eye accidents. Burns of the eye with hot instruments, such as curling irons, are not as likely to leave serious scarring damage to vision as are those from strong alkalies and acids. Burns due to lye and lime are esdestructive and should pecially nave immediate care to prevent loss of the eye. Free and prompt irrigation with clear water is of greatest importance, and should, if possible, be given at the place where the accident occurs, for every second that passes before this is done means increased permanent damage to the eye. Following such first aid, the injured person should be taken at once to an eye M.D. for further evaluation and treatment. Burns from strong acids' should have the same speedy attention. Penetrating wounds of the eye may occur from small foreign bodies, such as pieces of metal, stone, wood, etc., that may strike the eyeball with sufficient force to drive them through its coats. The worst of these accidents occur from giants caps exploding in the hand or nearby. The most common scource of them is the hammering of metai with metal. The use of improper tools for the job at hand, in this sort of work, has been responsible for many lost eyes. The smallest particle of iron or steel left inside the eyeball will destroy Most other it, unless removed. metals do not do this, but any foreign body inside the eye should be removed, if reasonably possible. Wounds that lay open the coats of the eyeball may usually be repaired by the eye physician and surgeon, if ..done soon after they occur. Where the ciliary body of the eye is cut through, or the choroid and retina are severely damaged, to try to save the injured eye may involve the well one in the dreaded sympathetic inflammation, which will blind it also. Another all too common scource of injury to the eye is the use of wrong medicine in it, from the home medicine cabinet. Usually irreparable harm is not done, but not infrenuentlv tincture of iodine. or some other heroic medication is dropped Into the eye by mistake. In the first place, these drugs should not be had In dropper bottles. In the second place, the ut most caution should be observed as to being certain what is dropped !ntr the w. Vnm M.D. alwflVS looks at the bottle from which he takes a drop for your eye. even thourh he uses the same one many times each day. Yoo too should cultivate the habit of caution. mills in the combined state and local property tax rate. However, the maximum program with an election would neces- sitate a property tax rate 1953. 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