[Etiology of blindness in remote area: a clinic report]

This paper analyzes the cause for blindness in 408 patients of Xinfeng People's Hospital from 1977 to 1991. The results show that cataract is the major cause for blindness (32.84%). The others are eye injury in patients below age 46, cataract and glaucoma in patients above age 46. It is suggested that the stress of prevention and treatment for blindness should be put on the prevention of eye injury in juveniles and middle aged people, and the treatment for senile cataract in remote mountain areas.