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WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

In other words, we have all this misery and expense, both of which are largely unnecessary; we have also an effective method of relief prepared by committees of our foremost experts and already well supported, in principle, by public opinion. What are we going to do about it? That is the question at last forced on ophthalmologists -- especially on the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association. Shall we complacently continue to do nothing, thus retarding social advancement and even ophthalmology itself? The answer to this question involves many details, both of principle and of method, far too complicated for discussion now. But in executive session a motion will be made for the appointment of a committee to report on this subject another year. (8) If at that time or later, some plan can be formulated for the prevention of this form of blindness, it will perhaps seem worth while for us to have directed our attention now, even in this hasty manner, to the relation of hereditary eye defects to genetics and eugenics.