Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — YANKS MADE BLIND IN WAR [ARTICLE]

YANKS MADE BLIND IN WAR

125 Lose Sight, but Not All Cases Considered Permanent. Washington, April 11.—There were only 125 cases of total blindness nnd fewer than 4,000 amputations in the American forces engaged in the war, It is stated by the bureau of war risk insurance In an announcement concerning the bureau’s activity in supplying crippled soldiers and sailors with artificial limbs and in otherwise •caring for the wounded and disabled. Not even all of the 125 cases of total blindness cited, It is stated, have yet been declared as permanent by the medical officers in charge. Relative to amputations, denial is made, on the authority of Surgeon General Ireland and Col. Charles E. Banks, chief medical officer of the war insurance risk insurance, that there were any cases in which men lost both arms and both legs. '