抄録
A survey was made of blind people living in Kyoto-Prefecture.
Population in this prefecture is 1, 967, 000 and the number of blind is 1946. The author applied the classification method of blindness of the U. S. A. and Canada. The vision under 0.04 is determined as blind.
Results
Table 1 shows etiology of the blind. The most numerous number of blindness are caused by the undetermined or not specified causes, Prenatal origin and infection is in due order, They are also divided from the standpoint of site and affected type of blindness in which diseases of eyeball are the most frequent and then diseases of cornea, and optic nerve are in due order.
Table 2 and Table 3 show classifications of blindness by sex, Table 4 is the classification of single blindness, In the Table 5 number of the blind is showed upon its age. Table 6 shows analysis of the occupation of the blind people, Fifty-two% of them are jobless and 35% of them are engaging in the business as “masseur”.
Table 7 shows occupational classification of the blind people whose one eye is blind while the other has amblyopia. Table 8 indicates numbers of cases who by surgical treatment are expected to have better vision, In this group about 200 cases have keratoplasia.
