MusEYEum Online Catalogue

Eye Care at Work
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
leaflet
Eye Care Information Bureau
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London W1
1966
paper
overall: 188 mm x 116 mm

Leaflet issued by a manufacturer's organisation, intended to help efficiency and protection in industry by sensible understanding of basic care and the prevention and treatment of defects and accidents. Small portrait format, printed in black and magenta on six sides of white paper, folded. Date stamped on the front panel 20 APR 1966. Illustrated with line drawings. Featured topics: acuity, accommodation, visual field, co-ordination of eye movements, exercises for the eyes, common abnormalities (astigmatism, long-sight, short-sight, spasm of accommodation, nervous blindness), standard of lighting for work, the psychological effect of colour, common eye complaints found in industry and their treatment (foreign bodies, splashes from chemicals, swelling of eyelids, cuts or scratches, red and inflamed eyes, Arc-Eye), general safety hints.

2020.165

Gift of Mr Brian Mitchell, 2010