These estimates are taken from statistics compiled by the British Empire Society for the Blind for the Rural Activities Committee of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind. This division between rural and urban populations is taken from the assumptions in the United Nations' Demographic Year Book, 1955.
2.
Report by the ophthalmic surgeon of the Northern Rhodesian Government following a survey in the Lake Mweru region of the Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia (Reference: the Seventh Annual Report of the British Empire Society for the Blind).
3.
Resolutions of the Oxford Conference, 1949. Article 26(1) of the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by fifty nations at the 1948 Assembly of the United Nations.
4.
UNESCO“World Survey of Education”1955, English edition, p. 17.
5.
Bussum Conference; Resolution 3.
6.
“African Education, A Study of Educational Policy and Practice in British Tropical Africa:”1953. Page 5. Report of West Africa Study Group, p. 21.
7.
Conference at King's College, Cambridge, September 1952.
