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Barking 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE
OPHTHALMIC CLINICS.
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 34
Other attendances 77
Spectacles prescribed 23
Spectacles supplied 17
External Diseases of the Eye treated at the Clinics :
Blepharitis and Conjunctivitis 5
Injury to Eye 1
Ingrowing lashes 1
Daerocystitis 5
Hordeolum 1
Cases listed for Squint Training 9
Expectant and Nursing Mothers.
Tests 21
Other Attendances (Blepharitis and Conjunctivitis 3, Meibomiam
cyst 1) 29
Spectacles prescribed 14
Spectacles supplied 7
In these clinics the two groups of cases, i.e., expectant and nursing mothers
on the one hand, and toddlers and infants on the other, differ markedly from each
other but have this in common—they are both subject to mild inflammatory
diseases and, in some cases, the disease has been transmitted from one to the other.
In children under five years of age the chief complaint is squint, while in
mothers, headache is common.