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"This shows the minimum number of myopes requiring
special teaching, and includes one case of hypermetropia where
the visual acuity is so reduced, even with correcting glasses, as to
render special teaching desirable. It does not include a number
of children who have been examined privately, some of
whom are in all probability suffering from myopia. This list will
probably be increased from time to time by the addition of children
who do not respond satisfactorily to easy treatment or observation.
It has been found that myopia advances much more rapidly in
debilitated children so that myopes returning to school after severe
illness or infectious disease might benefit by a few months' teaching
in a myope class before returning to the ordinary school curriculum."
It is evident from this report that it is essential that a myope
class should be formed to deal with the myopic children included
in the third group who need special education. One of the main
difficulties is to decide where to establish the class, or classes, which
most of the myopic children can conveniently attend, and the next
difficulty to solve is the mode of transport. When the re-organisation
of the schools has been more or less completed and when in
the course of the year the children in the new schools have been
medically examined, suggestions will be put forward for the consideration
of the Committee,