The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-21
TO MAKE SURVEY
OF EYE TROUBLES
Sight Conservation Council
Investigating Schools
and Industries.
WORKING In KENOSHA

A nationwide survey of eyesight con-
ditions in American education and in
dustry has been undertaken by the Eye
Sight Conservation of America. It is
announced at the national headquart-
ers of the Council in New York
AS to industry, the aim of the sur
vey, according to Guy A. Henry, gen.
eral director of the Council, is to dis
close the relation between defective
vision and the efficiency of the nations
millions of workers. AS to education,
is Is purposed to ascertain what steps
have been taken by the school to meas
ure the extent Of poor eye sight and to
make effective preventive provision.
The Eye Sight Conservation Coun-
ciPs survey, marking the start of the
reasearch program recently adopted by
the Board of Directors, has set out to
reveal the effort Of incorrect vision
upon production. It has prepared, a
QUESTIONABLE designed to show in
crease in individual performance, de-
duction and decrease in spoilage. The
extent. of color blindness, the number
of blind in one eye, the number totally
blinded, hours lost due to eye acct
dents, equivalent wages for lost time,
use of goggles, cost of eye protection
service, and total number Of eye injur-
les are other detectives.
Kenosha AS One of Centers.
This QUESTIONABLE has been sent out
to the industrial and commercial es-
adjustments located in the principal
cities Of Wisconsin, including Apple
ton, Beloit, Kenosha, La Crosse, La
nora, Milwaukee, Neenah and Superior
The Council will also endeavor to
show ito what extent is any effort being
made to place#in suitable jobs those
workers who have been permanently
or temporarily disabled because of eye
injuries" and whether any attempt is
being made to carry out the National
Safety Code for the Protection of the
Head and Eyes of Industrial Workers
as prepared by the U. S. Bureau of
Standards.
In the school survey, the Council is
trying to reveal what provisions are
being made to eliminate glare from
unshaded light sources, windows, poll
ished surfacesd blackboards, etc. One
of the most important questions to
which the Council seeks to provide
satisfactory answer is the relationship
of defective vision to retardation.
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to practically the entire Union. A
QUESTIONABLE has been prepared and
sent to the superintendent of schools
in numerous Wisconsin cities, includ-
ing Niagara, Green Bay, Kenosha, Mad
ison, Milwaukee and Racine
Much Waste Due to Eye Defects.
Previous investigation, it is stated,
has revealed alarming conditions of
vision which must be remedied if ma
tional physical deterioration is to be
avoided. The Hoover committee on
Elimination of Waste in Industry of
the Federated American Engineering
Societies found that industrial waste
was due in considerable measure to
faulty vision. It is estimated that 25,-
100000 gainfully employed Americans
are thus afflicted
The Eye Sight Conservation Council
is conducting a national movement
for the conservation of vision in the
schools.
Statistics covering many years show
that nine out of every ten persons over
tWenty-one have imperfect sight. At
thirty-one the proportion is larger.
Above forty it is almost impossible to
find a man or woman with perfect
sight. 1t was learned by the examina-
ton Of several thousand school children
in one of our large cities that sixty
six per cent of them had defective Wis
ion.
Proper lighting of schools, it is Said,
will go far toward eliminating these
evils. Glare, according to Prof F. c..
Caldwell of the Department of Elec-
trical Engineering, Ohio State Univer-
sity, and a member of the Board of
Councillors of the Eye Sight Conser-
walton Council, is prolific source of
poor eyesight. Commissioner of Edu-
cation John ]. Tigert says that retarda-
ton of pupils is prbably due in some
degree to unfavorable vision
The Eye Sight Conservation is one Of
the. organizations represented on the
Sectional Committee which is to pre-
pare a lighting code for the nations
schools. The code is being framed
under the auspices of the American
Engineering Standards Committee with
the American Institute of Architects
and the Illuminating Engineering
Society as joint sponsors.