SYPHILIS AND GONORRHEA AS CAUSES OF BLINDNESS

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This paper is a report of some findings concerning the role of syphilis and gonorrhea as etiological factors among persons declared legally blind in Ohio. Also considered are other aspects of syphilis and gonorrhea in blindness, including the topographical and pathological classifications of those persons whose blindness was caused by venereal disease, together with race and sex distribution of the venereal blind and observations on the age at which such persons become blind. Financial assistance and vocational rehabilitation for blind persons in Ohio is a function of the Ohio Department of Welfare. Through the cooperation of that department and with the assistance of its Division of Research and Statistics, basic statistical data presented in this study were especially tabulated at our request and were made available to the Division of Communicable Diseases of the Ohio Department of Health. The tables presented in this study were constructed by us from the

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