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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 46.

Trachoma Threatens New York Schools

At a meeting of the Health Department of New York on November 1, it was declared that New York City was threatened with a scourge of trachoma, which has made Egypt, the Barbary States, and certain parts of eastern Europe, nations of “sore eyes.” Since the beginning of the school year, 14,000 students have been excluded from the New York schools, suffering from this disease.