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Two sisters suffering from trachoma, a contagious chlamydial disease of the eye which, if untreated, could lead to blindness. Because of its prevalence Congress and President Woodrow Wilson authorized the Public Health Service in 1913 to use money from its annual "epidemic" fund for the prevention and control of trachoma.
c. 1920
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