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STEPS TO CHECK LONDON
BLINDNESS REGIMENT" HEALTH MINISTERS ABOLISHED
SCHEME
DETAILS SENT TO AUTHORITIES
the
Battalions New Titles
Changes in the titles of a" 1112 ber of units of the Territorial A comprehensive scheme for dealing with the problem of blind Army have been announced by the ness has been issued to local War Office. One result is that now thorities by Sir Kingsley Wood, one of the London-raised batta- Minister of Health, with a remind lions will have "London Regiment" er of their powers to assist in the as part of its designation. prevention of the affliction.
Every one of the surviving in- The plan has been prepared by the corps to which it belongs
fantry battalions bears the title of Standing Committee on the Prevention of Blindness, and days when they were volunteers, reversion to the practice in the deals with measures which should be taken in the maternity and formed, 30 years ago.
before the Territorial Army was child-welfare services and in infec- Thus the 9th London Regiment tious diseases, and in reducing the risks to those employed in road-King's Royal Rifle Corps, the 18th is now Queen Victoria's Rifles, the making, hedge-cutting and some London is the London Irish Rifles, other occupations.
It is suggested that if local au-the London Scottish The Gordon Royal Ulster Rifles, and the 14th thorities could be persuaded that Highlanders.
the proper exercise of their powers in many cases there is a reversion might well lead to a decrease in the to the titles by which the units had number of cases of blindness, and, been known before they became incidentally, to a reduction of un-transferred to other arms of the remunerative expenditure, they Service. The No. 1 City of Lon- would be willing to make full use don Battery, RH, for example, of those powers.
regains its old yeomanry title of Arrangements whereby some The Rough Riders. local authorities utilise the services. In additions, much of the school clinic and of the territorial designations are ophthalmic surgeon attending there ferred than had previously existed. for the examination of children un- der school age are recommended as “economical and desirable, and cap- able of further expansion.”
Measures At School
Of school services, it is stated that one of the most important
more local
Con-
BRITAIN'S LEAD IN GEOLOGY
100 Years of Survey
problems needing investigation is Geological Survey of Great Britain
The first official history of the the influence of myopia in causing written by Sir John S. Flett, who on blindness, and the part played by his retirement in 1985 had beer the special school for partially director for 15 years, is published sighted children in preventing it.
Attention is drawn to the possi-vey celebrated its centenary in July by the Stationery Office. The Sur- bility of serious eye trouble result-last year.
ing from infectious diseases, espec- The Geological Survey is the old- ially measles. Arrangements should est official body of the kind still (Continued at Foot of next Col.) existing and has been copied by all
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
On
Friday, the 10th. September, 1937
commencing at 2.30
at their Sales Boom,
-Buddell Street
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
the principal countries of the world. Its collections, now housed in its new museum of Practical Geology, in South Kensington, are of great educational and national import-
ance.
Names of great scientists appear on almost every page of this book and the gradual widening of the Survey's activities is graphically told. One of its first tasks, in 1838, was to ascertain the most suitable stone for the new Houses of Par- iament at Westminster -
In the words of the King, when, as Duke of York, he opened the new museum last year. "the work of the Survey has provided, and is pro- comprising:
viding year by year, a mass of Black Wood Ware, Teak Drawing fare of the mining interests of our knowledge indispensable to the wel- Room, Dining Room, Bed Room and country, to agriculture, to public Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, health and town planning, and to a Cutlery, Glasses, Crockery, Tea great variety of industries on which Sets, Brass and Enamel Ware, our economic prosperity depends." P. & Aluminium Ware, Pictures, Pecently the Survey co-operated Ornaments, Ice Chests, Typewriter, with the Department of Scientific Gramophones & Records, Electric and Industrial Research in finding Table Fans & Lamps, Books, Sew-new water supplies to satisfy the ing Machines, Vases, Cooking need revealed by the droughts of Stove, Cabin Trunks, Folding 1933 and 1934. Screens, Clocks, Dinner Service, etc., etc.
One Radio Set
One Organette.
"Chinese Porcelain"
(in one volume).
be made for an ophthalmologist to be called in.
The Advisory Committee on the Welfare of the Blind report that an Gallen analysis of the blind population, shows a decrease over a period of years in the figures lating
On View from Thursday, the 9th
mber, 1937.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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