Colour blindness and eyesight in the Mercantile Marine : a criticism of the new rules of the Board of Trade / by Thomas H. Bickerton.

  • Bickerton, Thomas H. (Thomas Herbert), 1857-1933.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Colour blindness and eyesight in the Mercantile Marine : a criticism of the new rules of the Board of Trade / by Thomas H. Bickerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COLOUR-BLINDNESS AND EYESIGHT IN THE MERCANTILE MARINE. A Criticism of the New Rules of the Board of Trade, by THOMAS H. BICKERTON, Ophthalmic Surgeon, Liverpool Royal Infirmary. In making* these remarks upon the important subject of seamen’s eyesight, and the visual tests employed to determine it, I have no desire to weary you with the past history of Board of Trade action upon this matter. I wish to allude to some of the more salient questions suggested by the working of the new tests now in operation, and to remind this Association and the public, that if the object to be attained is perfect safety, so far as human foresight can ensure it for the sea¬ travelling public, the present regulations contain a fatal flaw, while at the same time they continue to perpetuate the traditional policy of refined cruelty towards officers and men in the Mercantile Marine—whose best interest the Board of Trade