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Barking 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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48
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE
OPHTHALMIC CLINICS.
The Clinics held by Mr. W. A. Gray, F.R.C.S., began on the 14th May, 1935.
The following is a summary of the work carried out during the year in respect
of toddlers and nursing and expectant mothers :—
Toddlers.
Tests under atropine 22
Other attendances 37
Spectacles prescribed 16
Spectacles supplied 16
External Diseases of the Eye treated at the Clinics.
Conjunctivitis 5
Photophobia 2
Cataract (right) 1
Glioma (bilateral) (subsequently admitted to Moorfields Eye
Hospital) 1
Dacrocystitis 2
Blepharitis 2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (admitted to Queen Mary's Hospital,
Stratford, E.15) 1
Cases listed for squint training 4
Expectant and Nursing Mothers.
Tests 15
Other attendances (corneal nebulae) 1
Spectacles prescribed 10
Spectacles supplied 4