So many Finns came to see me here, all of them bleary-eyed and almost blind, that it was quite frightening. It was common to see a blind man here, or someone who was partially blind leading someone who actually was blind. It was futile for me to prescribe them any remedy as long as the cause of the damage remained present everywhere, ie. their smoky cabins. If I were in charge, they would have been strung up on a wall and given 30 lashes each to make them build chimneys for their cottages, especially as there is no shortage of timber. The authorities ought to compel them to do this. I have never seen anything more stupid and with so little reason. These were men of 30 to 40 years old, so what must it be like with the 70 year olds?