Blindness in the West Indies
The activities of the British Empire Society for the Blind, a voluntary organisation which is concerned with the prevent t,ion and cure of blindness and with furthering the welfare of the incurably blind, throughout the Colonial Empire, have bulked large in the news during the last year. The Society's West Indies committee now announces that it is in the last stages of an appeal which is only £300 short of its target of &20,000. There are about 10,000 blind people in the British Caribbean, and it is believed that about half this blindness could be prevented. At the Moment very little indeed is done to educate blind children and train blind people to do useful work. Experience in other parts of the Colonial Empire has shown what dramatic results can be achieved in these respects 'Y a small .expenditure. That well over nineteen and a half thousand pounds should have been raised in a few months, from industrialists with West Indian interests, is at a time like this a welcome proof that there is still such a thing as imperial consciousness.
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