BLINDNESS IN MISSOURI

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A constitutional amendment, "providing pensions for the deserving blind in Missouri," was passed by popular vote in the general election of November, 1920. The working details of the act were drawn up and passed by the state legislature and approved by the governor in March, 1921. It was required that each pensioner should be 21 years of age or over, that he or she should have been a resident of Missouri for at least ten years or have lost his or her sight while a bona fide resident of Missouri, that he or she have an income from all sources of not more than $780 per annum and that the vision in either eye must not be better than 20/450, with or without correcting lenses. The supervision and direction of working this act was very wisely put into the hands of the well-organized and most efficient Missouri Commission for the

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