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A Minor Ailment Clinic is, in fact, a well organised surgery where many major
defects are first discovered; here the Medical Officers deal with cuts, bruises and
apparent trivial complaints which unless treated at the onset may develop into a
serious illness.

TREATMENT OF DEFECTIVE VISION AND SQUINT.
Question :—Why is it so many children have defective vision ?
Answer :—We have become accustomed to adults wearing glasses and we do
not take much notice of it but somehow or other we do take note of a child wearing
glasses, and so it comes about we tend to get a wrong impression of the number of
children who have to wear glasses.
As a matter of fact it is because it is
not usual for children to wear glasses that
the wearing of glasses by children is so
obvious ; also, by reason of the fact that
their features are not so well formed as
in later life, glasses tend not to fit so
well. This makes them more obvious and
of course we cannot expect children to
take the same care of their glasses, with
the result that the joints become loose,
the fit becomes even less satisfactory, and
the glasses become still more obvious.
There were, as a matter of fact,
during the year 1947, only 119 children
for whom glasses were prescribed for the
first time.