SUDDEN BLINDNESS.
Ex-Soldiers Afflicted. Twenty years after they were poisoned by mustard gas during the war, sudden blindness is afflicting British jx-servicemen in many parts of the country (says the London Daily Herald). Cases are being reported in increasing numbers to St. Dunstan’s, and during the last 12 months the institution has admitted 14 men whose blindless is attributable to war-time gas. The majority have become blind so suddenly that they have had little er io time to make provision for the luture of their wives and children. A Soreness at first; then watering if the eyes, and soon the blindness is complete. "In all these cases,” said an official if St. Dunstan’s, “there Is not the slightest doubt that the gassing has brought on the blindness some 20 years later.” So far as is, known, only mustard gas of the war-time gases has this effect.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TCP19370410.2.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146SUDDEN BLINDNESS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Copyright undetermined – untraced rights owner. For advice on reproduction of material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in