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Show Help for the Blind. The Journal of the American Medical Medi-cal Association is authority for tha averment that the blind people in the United States number 300,000, and that it costs about $15,000,000 to support sup-port them. It is estimated that 75 per cent of this blindness is due to two causes, namely, sore eyes at birth and neglected eyes during early school life. The first cause can be removed in the simplest manner. All that is necessary is for the doctor or midwife to drop into the eyes of the newly born babe a few drops of a two per cent solution of nitrate of silver. This will kill the germs that produce the disease which almost fills so many blind asylums. |