GENERAL BOOTH'S EYESIGHT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9362, 3 February 1909, Page 6

GENERAL BOOTH'S EYESIGHT.

OPERATION FOR CATARACT.

General Booth underwent an operation for the removal of a cataract from his right eve at hjs residence at Hadley Wood, on Wednesday, 16th December. The operation, which was performedO by Dr. Charles Higgens, of Guy’s Hospital, assisted by Dr. Wardlaw Milne, of High Barnet, passed off quite satisfactorily. It was carried out in the veteran leader’s bedroom just before three o’clock, cocaine being injected, and. lasted only a couple of minutes. Mr Bramwell Booth, the General's son, was present. During the morning General Booth had a consultation with his son, and dealt with correspondence as.usual, afterwards lunching. He-, faced the ordeal quite calmly. Dr Higgens says that the operation will be the means of restoring the impaired sight, the condition of which* has prevented the General from reading anything" but bold print. He will of course, have to keep _to his room for some days, during which the eye must be protected 1 : from all light. The doctors declare that in every respect his health is in. excellent condition. ; General Booth has already made’ arrangements to conduct something’, like a mouth’s campaign- in Great Britain, between the latter part of January and the end of February, and he will then proceed for a short tour in Scandinavia, visiting Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, after which he will return to London for hte celebration of his 80th birthday in April He has only recently returned from his last distant; tour, involving seven weeks’ continual travelling and meetings in South Africa, with the addition of five weeks on the sea. More recently still he visited several of the principal German cities. Right up tos the last moment before the operation; he was engaged on a message to his; soldiers all over the world.