Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-07-03
57,272 PEOPLE
IN U. S. BLIND
Census Figures Show Pro
portion Greater Among
Males Than Females.

"dSHluSlOIl, II. u, July .. Ho
: census bureau made public today a
bulletin stating that the census OF
1910 showed 57,272 blind persons in
the United States, or 62.3 for each
100000 of total population.
The total number of blind persons
IN the world is roughly estimated at
100000
The only countries and provinces
in which the ratios Of the blind to the
total .poulation are lower than that
for the United States 1923 per 100,-
0OOr are Canada, where the ratio was
44.9 per 100000 in 1911; Belgium,
where it was 435 in 1910, Denmark,
52.7 in 1911; Germany, 60.9 in 1900;
Netherlands, 1853 in 1909; New South
Wales, .61.4 in 1911; Western Aus
tralia, 50,3 in 1911, and New Zealand,
AIS in 1911. !. "a
In the United States blindness is
most prevalent in New Mexico and
Nevada, in which states the ratios OF
blind to total population in 1910 were
/, 1898 to 100000 and 1883 to 100000
Respectively. The high ratios for
these states are due to the fact that
Indians: among whom trachoma
Z (grsnulated eyehds) is of frequent oc-
currence in these sections of the
country, constitute relatively large
elements in their population. In Ari-
IONA. Kentucky. Tennessee and Yer
mont the ratios are also high-9o.9.
a., 89.5 and 8t.6. respectively. The
relatively large Indian population of
Arizona is. responsible for the high
ratio in that state: trachOma is prev
tot, VIC nf K0nf1nkV
and Tennessee; and in Vermont there
are relatively more people OF advanc-
ed ages than in other parts OF the
country, to which fact is doubtless
due the high ratio for that state. since
susceptibilitX.i to blindness increases
with advancing age; =
In 1850. and at every succeeding
census the proportion blind has been
greater among males than among fe-
S7males. In 1910 the ratio of males
ssTfo females among the blind popula-
5 tion was 1904 to 100. whereas in the
{ total population the corresponding
ratio was LOG to''10O. In the major
: ity of foreign countries similar con-
,dition exists.
Among native whites. the number
of Hind persons per 100000 uopula-
ton of the same race and nativity
-4as only 50, whereas for the total
population the ratio was 62.3 to 1AAs-
so. The corresponding, ratios To-:
ether elements of the population
we're: Foreign-born whites, 40 to
100000: negroes, 80 to 100000; 1nd1-
ans, 1925 to 100000; Chinese, Japan
csc and all other non-whites, 1872 to
100000
= Of the 81, 473 blind males 10 years
of age and over in 1910, only 1876 or
25.3 per cent, were reported as be-
ing gainfnlly employed, while of the
$4,000 blind females 10 years of age
anc over, only 1886 or 5.6 per cent
were reported as gainfully employed.
The Youth Of Athens.
When Athens gave every fourth
block to her children and youth for
the gymnasium and the playground
she built bodies of silk and steel. and
great men walked up and down her
streets In regiments, and her health
bloomed In the orations of Demos
themes, and the essays Of Plato and |
the marbles Of Phidias. Just as soon
az the race and the body began to
deterioriate. Athens. went to pieces.
This has been the story, also, o.
Ephesus. and Corinth, and Venice
Newell Dwight ui.is.