TRAGIC MISTAKE
FORTY CHILDREN BLINDED. J (United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright), LONDON, January 15. The “Daily Express” Athens correspondent reports a tragic story. Forty children were blinded by a mistake at an eye clinic. Children from Kesarion near Athens, were taken to have their sight tested. They were conducted; to the room, where a number of patients were being treated for infectious diseases. Attendants in charge of the room immediately sprayed thS> childien s e,\ cs with syringes charged 1 with powerful cauterising fluids ; All of the little victims are permanently blinded. Athens was in .an uproar, and the H.itude of the populace so menacing that the Minister of Health ordered a trial of all the oculists employed at the clinic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1930, Page 4
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121TRAGIC MISTAKE Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1930, Page 4
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