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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Acton 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Officer, and are then sent down to the school, accompanied by a
note to the head teacher, asking him or her to see that they are
worn regularly. At the same time, any special directions are
given about the case. The parents pay from 3s. to 4s. 6d.,
according to the cost of the glasses which are provided. In
necessitous cases they are given free. As already mentioned,
these children then come up for review at each routine visit of
the School Medical Officer. If the children move into another
neighbourhood, the defect card is copied and sent with the Medical
Inspection card to the new education authority.
For the past year the statistics are as follows:—
| Number of children examined (including observation cases) | 270 |
| Number of visits paid | 556 |
| Prescriptions granted | 126 |
| Glasses obtained | 125 |
| Detailed Account of Cases :— | |
| Refractions performed | 118 |
| Hypermetropic astigmatism | 72 |
| Hypermetropia | 3 |
| Alternating concomitant strabismus | 7 |
| Right internal strabismus | 10 |
| Left internal strabismus | 21 |
| Myopia | 5 |
| Myopic astigmatism | 23 |
| Nystagmus | 1 |
| Phlyctenular conjunctivitis | 3 |
| Corneal ulcers | 6 |
| Anterior polar cataract | 1 |
| Blepharitis | 5 |
| Conjunctivitis | 3 |