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In only 20 boys (.9 per Cent.) and 16 girls (.8 per cent.) was the enlargement
at all marked.
In one case only there was suspected tuberculosis of the neck glands.
Glandular enlargement was more common among the entrants than
leavers, and more common among the boys than girls, the percentage for infant
boys being 4.9, infant girls 2.6, thirteen year old boys 2.0, and thirteen year old
girls 1.5.
The posterior cervical glands were enlarged in 6 children, 3 boys and
3 girls.
External Eye Disease.
Squint was noted in 65 children, 33 boys and 32 girls. The squint was
convergent, except in the case of 4 boys. Of the children who had squint, 12
or 18.5 per cent, were wearing glasses. The percentage of children with squint
was: infant boys 1.8, ten year old boys 1.4, thirteen year old boys .95; infant
girls 2.1, ten year old girls 1.3, and thirteen year old girls 1.1.
Opacities of the cornea were noticed in 16 children.
Other defects found were: stye, 2 cases; epiphora (or watering of the eyes)
4 cases; blepharitis, 21 cases; ptosis (drooping of the eyelids) 3 cases;
conjunctivitis, 4 cases.
Vision.
The statistics concerning vision are given in the table at the end of the
report in the form suggested by the Medical Officer of the Board of Education.
The percentage of children with normal vision of each eye for leavers was 65.6,
and for the intermediate group of children of ten—eleven years old, 62.4.
Taking the boys and girls together, therefore, the eyesight is a little better at
thirteen years old than at ten years old.
Taking boys and girls separately, the percentage of boys with normal
vision of each eye is for boys of ten, 65.5; and for boys of thirteen, 65.1. The
percentage of girls with normal vision of each eye is: for the ten year old
group, 58.7; and for the thirteen year old group, 61.6. Thus boys have better
eyesight than girls; and while the boys' eyesight is about the same at both
ages, the sight of the girls at thirteen years of age is better than the sight of
the girls at ten years of age. These figures are satisfactory in some measure,
since they afford no evidence of deterioration of vision caused by school
influences, such as needlework.