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The Ohio circular (3) is a small folder containing especially clear and direct advice, describing the disease, precautions to be taken, and quoting the Ohio law. This leaflet emphasizes the danger to others from this contagious disease, and is especially planned for distribution through physicians, to nurses and others. In each instance the literature on prevention of blindness from these three states is of peculiar interest and promise.

In each instance, organized work for the blind places itself on record as an active agent in the campaign. In fact, the Ohio Commission is instructed in the act creating the board to take every possible measure towards the prevention of blindness. In all three states, it will also be seen, the work is resolving itself into a lay campaign, with the full force of work done with the co-operation and under the guidance of the medical profession. All six publications are valuable contributions towards the development of supplementary social work so essential to wiping out blindness as a result of ophthalmia neonatorum.