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MENTAL DEFICIENCY.
SPECIAL EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN FOR MENTAL
DEFICIENCY.
No. of new cases examined 53
,, new cases certified 36
„ cases found not to be mentally defective 14
„ cases under observation 3
„ cases returned to ordinary school —
,, cases transferred to Statutory Committee 10
„ cases examined for the second or third time 45
The number of children at the special school for mental defectives
during 1918 is given below.
GRANGE WOOD SPECIAL SCHOOL.
On Register, 31st December, 1917 27
Admitted to class during 1918 27
Discharged and re-admitted to Council Schools, 1918 none
Discharged for unsuitability 5
Left the Borough 5
On Register, December 31st, 1918 44
THE WORK OF THE OPHTHALMIC SURGEON.
The number of refractions done in 1918 was 494; in 1917 the
number was 743.
The total number of children examined for eye trouble in 1918
was 531, as contrasted with 761 in 1917.
The following is a summary of the cases seen in the eye clinic at
the Town Hall:—
Total No. of children examined 531
„ ,, „ attendances 1207
TABLE E. viii.
Children refracted 479
Glasses were ordered for 303
Glasses not needing changing 58
Glasses needed changing 9
Glasses not advised at present 60
Glasses—normal vision 49
479
Glasses were needed and ordered as follows:—
Myopia 77
Myopic Astigmatism 25
Hypermetropia 84
Hypermetropic Astigmatism 52
Mixed Astigmatism 4
Anisometropia 16
Strabismus, internus 38
„ externus 2
„ alternating 4
„ periodic 1
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