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Annual Report of the School
Ophthalmic Surgeon
Mr. S. Macky, M.B., B.S., D.O.M.S.,
for the year ending 31st December, 1936.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Enfield Education Committee.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my report on the Ophthalmic Department for
the year ending 31st December, 1936.
Elementary Schools. Secondary Schools.
Total attendances 2,072 96
New cases 1 ,028 49
Prescription for glasses 336 25
Number not requiring glasses 112 5
The cases requiring glasses consisted of:—
Hypermetropia 84 2
Hypermetropia with astigmatism 314 10
Hypermetropic astigmatism 154 1
Myopia 96 12
Myopia with astigmatism 99 14
Myopic astigmatism 11 —
Mixed astigmatism 64 1
Anisometropia 15 3
Five children were referred to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital
for operation for squint. Three were operated upon and two are
awaiting operation. Two children who were referred for operation
in 1935 were operated upon in 1936. One child was referred to the
Western Ophthalmic Hospital for removal of meibomian cyst, and
one child found to have a detached retina was operated upon early
in 1937.