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Show I Save Your Vision Week Scheduled March 4 thru 10 More than half of all defense industry in-dustry employees have inefficient vision that may handicap them in their jobs and make them subject to accidents, Dr. Geo. E. Harris, president of the Utah Optemetric Assn., declared today in a statement state-ment issued in connection with the twenty-fifth annual Save Your Vision Week (March 4 to 10.) "The worker who sees well produces pro-duces more, does a better job and is less prone to accidents than one who neglects his vision," Dr. Harris Har-ris said. "About two out of three adults wear glasses, buf in millions of cases they have not been prescribed prescrib-ed on the basis of the specific requirements re-quirements for the job done by the wearer. The lenses that are obtained obtain-ed to make reading easy may not be the ones best suited to an industrial in-dustrial job. There are vast differences, dif-ferences, for instance, between the visual- requirements to operate a crane or a lathe. The distance of one's work from his eyes is of critical importance." Dr. Harris said the eye accidents occur at the rate of two a minute throughout the working day, and all but 2 of them could be prevented by proper precautions. Many visual problems can be prevented by proper attention to the seeing environment and by ear ly care, he said, and most visual shortcomings can be corrected by the aid of modern optometric science. |