[Multi-handicapped blind children]

In Magdeburg on the key day of the 31st of December 1983 73 children at 1 to 16 years of age have been registered to be blind or suspected to be blind. Nearly half of them (n = 38) is multiply injured, that means, besides blindness they show another relevant organic affection. A central position in the causes of blindness in multiply impaired children hold the retrolental fibroplasia, the intensive myopia, and the amblyopia (mostly temporary diagnosis). Mental and physical retardation of premature infants respectively debility are the most frequent diagnoses of the secondary disease. We can't explain the increase respectively the decrease of multiple damages in blind children but merely refer to the high number of multiply impaired blind children among blind ones.