DANGERS TO THE EYESIGHT 



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The same disease is found in other cities in different 

 parts of the world, and it always spreads if it gets a 

 chance. 



One of these eye diseases is so terrible, and it spreads 

 so fast, that the government of the United States is very 

 strict in trying to keep it out 

 of the country. For this 

 reason there are officers that 

 examine the eyes of every 

 immigrant who wishes to 

 land. If then any man, 

 woman, or child has that 

 particular eye trouble, the 

 officers either send him back 

 at once to the country he 

 came from, or else they see 

 that he is cured before they 

 let him go around among 

 other people. 



It is the easiest thing 

 in the world for children, 

 through their ignorance of microbes, to help eye diseases 

 along. One child may have sore eyes in the first place. 

 They feel queer; he therefore rubs them and gets 

 microbes on his hands. Next he takes hold of the hands 

 of other children, or of some book or plaything that they 

 are going to touch, and microbes are left in those places. 



THROWING LIGHT ON THE BOOK 



