Abstract
To the Editor:— The response to the letter in QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ( 210: 732, 1969) on Incidence and Socioeconomic Effects of Monocular Blindness is a valid collating of the survey statistics of monocular blindness of adults, but it requires different emphasis when applied to youngsters. The consequence of the loss of an eye or the eyesight of one eye to a young lad on the threshold of life is most heartrending. Because of accident proneness, the insurance companies must disapprove their employment. The fields of industry, transportation, mining, and advanced professional education are well-nigh closed to the one-eyed. The armed services and the civil service do not want them. Every effort should be made by the medical profession to force this realization on parents and educators. Prevention we all agree on, but others who control the lives of children gloss over what to us is apparent. The toy, gun, and
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