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(d) Visual Defects and External Eye Disease.—Visual
defects and external eye diseases are treated at your
school clinics, and in this connection Mr. W. A. Gray,
F.R.C.S., continued as your consulting ophthalmic
surgeon during the year.
Spectacles are provided through the Department at
contract prices and in necessitous cases are provided
free of charge.
Particulars of the treatment of visual defects will be
found on pages 207 to 210 and on pages 232 and 246.
The closer co-operation between routine medical
inspection and the cases referred therefrom for
ophthalmic opinion is more evident this year, and it is
interesting, after a perusal of Mr. Gray's Report, to
seek a reason for the defect which he states to be one of
slight ophthalmic importance. It is obvious, however,
that the remedy for this type of visual defect is quite
within the scope of your service.
(e) Nose and Throat Defects and (f) Ear Disease and
Defective Hearing.—In September of the year under
review, an Ear, Nose and Throat Department was
opened at the Woodward Road Centre, under the
direction of Mr. C. R. Sandiford, F.R.C.S. Sessions
are held twice weekly, and to him are sent all cases
relative to that Department, when found by the
assistant medical officers.
This is a feature of extreme importance to the school
child and for which we have all been anxiously waiting.
It is now possible for defects of hearing, chronic
conditions of the nose and sinuses, conditions remaining
after infectious disease, etc., to be adequately dealt
with at the earliest possible time. It is too soon to