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A poster showing where trachoma occurs.



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Title: A Common Dangerous Disease
From: Second Annual Report Of The National Committee For The Prevention Of Blindness
Original caption: A Common Dangerous Disease

Trachoma is found in every part of America
In the Mountains
Among the Indians
In the Crowded City

18% of the pupils in one State School for the Blind
20% of all the American Indians
Victims of Trachoma

There are 33,000 Cases in One Southern State.

Second only to tuberculosis. Its increase is alarming.
U.S. Indian Service Report

I would rather have my child have small pox.
A Noted Oculist

Action Needed Now
Creator: n/a
Date: November 1916
Publisher: National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, New York
Source: Mount Holyoke College Library