Show MUCH BLINDNESS IS preventable proper workshop conditions of importance st louls louis unit ot of ull all blindness is preventable declared dr park lewis eminent ophthalmologist of buffalo N y wid ond vice president of the national committee for the prevention of blindness it in an address before the chamber of commerce here tills is so doctor lewla lewis said bald des despite p ite the important reductions lit in both the frequency und severity of some of the principal causes of blindness resulting from the organized and nution wide campaign for the prevention of blindness which is how in its eleventh year tile the total amount of blindness and half sight however la Is growing proportionately t tiona tely less speaking on the economic necessity for conservation cori of vision doctor lewis pointed out that the cost of educating a 11 blind child Is tit at least ten times that of educating a normal sight ed child As aa further evidence of the heavy cost to industry resulting from accidents and diseases affecting the eyes lie ho declared decla rep that lo in new york state alone chosu to Is paid as compensation for eye injuries in a year and that almost an equal amount Is paid by the employers of vanla each year in it considering the economic pit phase 0 of the subject doctor lewla lewis said we are not thinking of tile the frightful fright fut loss lois to the man in tho the moral suffering which lie incurs in the dependency which necessarily follows from the loss of his own self neither r are we considering that long line jine of related losses which enter into tle the question there is not a loss suffered by any individual member of a doctor lewis added that la Is not in some degree shared by every other member I 1 think then that it would be agreed that in ili industry today it is a matter only of forethought and business acumen to so plan each factory and workshop that tile the greatest grell test returns are produced with it 11 minimum nihil muni of loss that tho the most serious loss logs that cian cain be sustained is the 11 irreparable injury of the die most valuable implement in the shop the workman that the average workman la Is apt to be careless of his own interests and lie needs to be guided in preserving them that the loss when sustained Is a triple one first and most serious to the man himself who Is thereby handicapped for the remainder of ills life and who if he works must thereafter work at reduced pay second to the employer who has to pay the price either cither through insurance in sur arice or otherwise or he may lose the services of a valued and skilled workman and third to the co commonwealth ninon wealth 1 |