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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ealing 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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| Subjective condition on account of which child was referred to oculist. | No. | Cases in which visual defect was due to physical abnormality | Cases in which a subsequent examination has confirmed emmetropia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corneal opacity | Amblyopia | |||
| 1. Visual defect. (Routine inspection | 24 | 5 | 3 | |
| 2. Visual defect. (Non-routine) | 15 | 1 | 1 | |
| 3. Inflammatory conditions | 16 (b) | 1 | 1 | |
| 4. Headaches | 18 | |||
| 5. Child wearing glasses obtained elsewhere | 10 | |||
| 6. Injury | 1 | 1 (c) | ||
| 7. Backwardness | 1 | |||
| 8. Squint | 20 | |||
NOTES. (a) Referred to Western Ophthalmic Hospital, where the surgeon
confirmed the emmetropic condition and gave as his
opinion that the child was malingering.
(b) Child submitted for examination fourteen days after an
attack of measles with residual blepharitis.
(c) Child injured by explosion of firework. Two months later
vision was normal and the eye apparently unaffected.
(c) Nose and Throat Defects.—For many years operations
for enlarged tonsils or adenoids have been carried out at the Mattock
Lane Health Centre, but to provide proper after-operative care
for these children and to ease the ever-increasing pressure on the
accommodation at this Centre the desirability of dealing with
these cases elsewhere has been considered. Arrangements have
now been made to refer to the King Edward Memorial Hospital