The causes and prevention of blindness / by Ernst Fuchs ; translated by R. E. Dudgeon with a few notes by M. Roth.

  • Fuchs, Ernst, 1851-1930.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The causes and prevention of blindness / by Ernst Fuchs ; translated by R. E. Dudgeon with a few notes by M. Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Even now in many hospitals eye patients arc mixed up with surgical cases and arc treated along with the latter by the surgeon to the hospital, who is not as a rule specially conversant with ophthalmic affections. Where this state of things obtains, it should be put a stop to, and a special department set aside for eye cases. This department should also contain separate rooms for infectious eye diseases, and be under the care of an oculist. § 68. Organization of the sanitary authorities. — In order that the prophylactic measures should be able to have their full influence, they should not exist merely on paper, but they must be practically realized. It is not sufficient that this should be done as hitherto only in model schools, eye hospitals or lying-in hospitals, &c, but these measures must be carried out on a great scale and thoroughly. To secure this, the centrali- zation of the sanitary service is essential, the operations of which all over the country should be superintended by a chief sanitary authority, which should have a sufficient amount of scientific attainments for the difficult task it has to perform. This task is of a twofold character: first it has to organize and direct the sanitary service throughout the whole country, and next it has to carry out scientific works connected with hygiene. By this I do not mean works {e.g., of an experimental kind) which require a laboratory and which properly belong to the univer- sities. The most important task of the chief sanitary authority is to form a scientific appreciation of the material that flows in upon it in the form of reports of all kinds. These arc not intended never to be read again, but sent to moulder in the