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(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Disease.—Visual defects during the year
have been treated by your Medical Officers as heretofore and I do not intend to give
details but refer you to my remarks of previous years. Next year it will be our
pleasant duty to inform you that the whole scheme has been revised under the
direction of Mr. W. A. Gray, F.R.C.S., of Moorfields and Queen Mary's Hospitals.
384 cases of visual defect dealt with under the Authority's Scheme. Of this
number, 335 were provided with spectacles ; 49 cases obtained spectacles from
other sources.
The Optician approved by the Authority carried out a number of minor
repairs to spectacles which had already been provided.
Cases of external eye disease, such as conjunctivitis and blepharitis, are
treated at the Authority's Minor Ailments Clinics. 338 cases were thus treated
during the year as compared with 187 during 1933.
During the year, there were two operations for squint which were carried out
by private arrangements, one at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields,
E.C.I, and the other at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield, E.C.I.
(e) Nose and Throat Defects.—An arrangement has been made between the
Authority and two local Hospitals (Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, and St. Mary's
Hospital, Plaistow), for the removal of tonsils and adenoids, this being by far the
commonest surgical nose and throat condition found at school medical inspection.
Specialists attend at these Hospitals twice weekly and see cases referred by your
Medical Officers. If an operation is found necessary, the patient is given a form to
present at the Public Health Department; this form is exchanged for an operation
voucher.