The New York Times records the estimate of the Eyesight
Conservation Council that nearly half the Americans employed in industry arc suffering from defective vision. The Ford Motor Car Company at Detroit, whose employees number 65,000, has carried out eyesight tests since 1912. The report states that almost half the workers are found to have defective vision. The actual number recorded by the Literary Digest is 29,000-44 per cent. of the workers had vision below the normal. What is termed the Eye Department of the Ford Company is especially active, and all em- ployees with poor vision are placed on jobs where there is no risk of injury or other conditions that would make the eyesight worse. It would be interesting to learn what the proportion of those with defective vision would be in our largest industrial plants in this country.
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