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The large number of patients who do not attend for their appointmenta - 58
(and who do not inform us accordingly) give an unnecessary large amount of extra
work to all concerned.
The results of treatment (using the buzzer) are satisfactory, and very
similar to results in previous years
%of total
Number cured 104 80%
Number failed or poor result 26 20%
This cure rate of 80%is reduced by about 10% in fact, as several cases
relapse within a few months.
The causes of failure are virtually all due to one of two causes - the buzzer
fails to awake the child, or the child awakes but is too frightened and unable to
co-operate. Invariably these failures occur in the 6 year old group (the minimum
age seen), and therefore there is sufficient reason to raise the minimum age to
receive buzzer treatment to 7 years old.
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cases where a brother or sister of a child already attending this clinic was
referred here as we felt it better to keep the dealings with one family in one
clinic rather than for different members of the family to be seen at different
clinics."
EYE DISEASES. DEFECTIVE VISION AND SQUINT
Ophthalmic Specialists of the Regional Hospital Board attended weekly at
Central Clinic, Barking, and at Porters Avenue and Becontree Avenue Clinics,
Dagenham. There is some delay in providing treatment at Becontree Avenue Clinic
owing to the large number of patients in the catchment area of this Clinic.
Efforts to obtain further specialist sessions for this clinic have not been
successful.
Pupils known to have been treated
(a) External eye diseases and other (excluding errors of
refraction and squint) 23
(b) Errors of refraction (including squint) 1,978
(c) Number of pupils for whom spectacles were prescribed 1,152