title: Sir William Wilde and provision for the blind in nineteenth-century Ireland.
abstract: As Assistant Commissioner for the Census of Ireland Sir William Wilde worked as an early epidemiologist, providing information regarding the deaf-and-dumb and the blind in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. As a social agitator he focussed the attention of the authorities to the plight of the blind and their inability to earn a living and support themselves. This paper highlights his contribution to the provision for the blind in Ireland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. smullaney@stjames.ie.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mullaney
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000266:history*; D019352:Censuses / Q000266:history; D003638:Deafness / Q000266:history; D060329:Education of Persons with Visual Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history
keywords: Blindness; Census; Nineteenth-century Ireland; Ophthalmia; William Wilde