Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — Blindness in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Blindness in Russia.

Russia and Egypt are the two countries in which blind persons constitute the largest proportionate number of the total papulation. There were, according to the last census, nearly 200,000 blind persons in European Russia. The prevalence of blindness is ascribed to the flatness of the country and the imperfect ventilation of the huts used by the peasantry. Though more than half the blind papulation of Europe is to be found in Russia, there are only twentyfive asylums for the blind in that em-pire—one-tentih of the total number of Europe.