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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BLINDNESS , the See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of being See also:

BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind (a See also:

COMMON

common See also:

Teutonic word), i.e. devoid of sight (see also Vlsiou; and See also:

EYE: Diseases). The data furnished in various countries by the See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census of 1901 showed generally a decrease in blindness, due to the progress in medical See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, use of See also:

ANTISEPTICS (Gr. avrl, against, and 6177rrnKor, putrefactive)

antiseptics, better sanitation, See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of infectious diseases, and better See also:

PROTECTION

protection in shops and factories. Blindness is much more common in hot countries than in temperate and See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold regions, but See also:

FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa)

Finland and See also:

ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland are exceptions to the See also:

general See also:

RULE

rule.' In hot countries the eyes are affected by the glaring sunlight, the dust and the dryness of the See also:

air, From See also:

STATISTICS

statistics in See also:

Italy, See also:

France and See also:

Belgium, localities on the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast seem to have more blind persons than those at a distance from the See also:

sea. There are no See also:

LATE

late returns for Iceland, but the last available statistics gave 340o per million. A See also:

paper written in 1903 on blindness in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt stated that 1 in every 50 of the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was blind. The following table gives the number of blind persons as reported in the census of each See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. Unless otherwise stated, it refers to the statistics of 1900. Country. See also:

TOTAL

Total Number per Million Number. of Population. See also:

Austria 14,582 540 Belgium 3448 487 See also:

CANADA

Canada 3279 610 See also:

Denmark 1047 427 See also:

England 25,317 778 France 27,174 698 Finland' 3229 1191 See also:

Hungary 19,377 1006 See also:

Ireland 4263 954 Italy . 38",160 1175 See also:

Holland (1890) 2114 414 See also:

Norway 1879 838. See also:

PORTUGAL

Portugal 5650 1040 See also:

Sweden 3413 664 See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland (1895) 2107 722 See also:

Scotland 3253 727 See also:

Spain (1877) 24,608 1006 See also:

Russia about 2000 See also:

UNITED

United States (corrected census) .

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