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Number of children for whom spectacles were
(1) Prescribed (a) Under Authority's scheme 681
(b) Otherwise 21
(2) Obtained (a) Under Authority's scheme 677
(b) Otherwise 25
Number of children
Referred to hospital 22
Referred to training clinic for squint 1
Recommended ultra-violet light 6
Recommended myope school 2
Recommended for special reading facilities in
school 15
Recommended to discontinue spectacles 9
Treated with atropin for squint 60
Cured without use of spectacles 6
Details regarding the Special Eye Clinic for pre-school children
will bo found on page 100.
TREATMENT AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN
SUFFERING FROM SQUINT.
In the past the Council's Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
(J. D. Magor Cardell, M.B., F.R.C.S.), who is a member of the consulting
medical staff of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital,
has kindly arranged for Leyton children suffering from squint to
attend at that Hospital for special treatment and training under his
supervision. He finds, however, that this arrangement has not
proved as satisfactory as he had hoped owing to the fact that most
Leyton parents cannot afford the time and the money to attend the
Hospital regularly.
Under the circumstances Mr. Cardell submitted the following
observations :—
" A squinting eye is almost always defective in vision and always
" fails to work properly in conjunction with the other eye. In a normal
" person the ability to use both eyes together is responsible for the accurate
" estimation of depth, roundness and distance—in short, for stereoscopic
" vision. Without stereoscopic vision objects appear nearly flat and more
" or less on the same plane—rather like a photograph. This defect is not
" apparent to the person who squints, because he has never known any"
thing different and therefore notices nothing abnormal in his vision. His
" capability of performing fine movements requiring accurate judgment of
" depth and distance is much reduced and certain types of employment are
" impossible to him.