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Show Appeal made to aid sight of young people An appeal has been made to Utahns to save one of the most precious resources in the State the sight of young children. Beginning Thursday, August 20, and continuing for a month the Utah Society for Prevention Preven-tion of Blindness will conduct a campaign for funds to carry out next year's program, including in-cluding free examinations to detect amblyopia in pre-school children. Amblyopia, or unequal vision must be detected by the child's fifth year or, in most cases, he will suffer at least partial blindness in one eye by the third grade. If caught in this pre-school examination, amblyopia ambly-opia is almost always successfully success-fully treated, at no pain to the child. The full cost for the screening screen-ing program less than $10 for each eye finally saved. The Society last year carried car-ried out free examinations of 10,500 Utah children under six years of age. Amblyopia was detected in 62 cases, and easily cured in more than 60 per cent of those who had this dreaded disease. 1965 projects also will include in-clude the glaucoma screening and secondary school eye safety safe-ty program. Checks in any amount may be sent to: Utah Society for Prevention of Blindness, 309 East 1st South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. |