The Enumeration of the Blind in India *Read at the Eighth Conference of the All-India Ophthalmological Society held at Bangalore in December 1940.

In foreign countries, India is regarded as a land of blindness. Whether this statement is justified or not at present, it is difficult to prove. It is probably correctly written that there are about one and a half million blind pers'ons in India, and for every one person blind there are three partially blind, out of a total population of 3,53,000,000, whereas the census figures of 1931 show a little over three-fifths of a million