Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — Protecting Railroad Employees’ Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Protecting Railroad Employees’ Eyes.

With the object of protecting its employees against permanent injury to the eye or sight, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company, in a circular jußt issued, urges that in all cases of injury or of the lodgment of foreign particles in the eye, the employee at once get the services of a company physician, whenever this be possible, rather than attempt to treat the injury or allow fellow employees to do so. Railroad experience cites many instances of permanent injury to the eye or total loss of sight sustained as the results of attempts by persons to usurp the office of surgeon. The immediate securing of medical attention, it is held, eliminates the possibility of infection. —Scientific American.