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149
Brought forward 849
Squint only 49
Anisometropia 1
No defect 55
Spasm of accommodation 40
Various diseases 43
Referred to Minor Ailments Clinic 68
1,105
" Various diseases " included :—
Keratitis 7
Diplopia 3
Congenital cataract 1
Epicanthus 2
Meibomean cyst 4
Injury to eye 2
Ptosis 2
Ophthalmia neonatorum 1
Migraine 15
Optic atrophy 1
Phlyctenular ophthalmia 5
43
The number of cases attended at the clinic maintains the
average.
A certain proportion of the cases of defective vision is due to the
bad habit of reading and writing at too close a distance to the eyes.
Such cases rarely require glasses and, indeed, should never have
required attention. They obviously crowd out cases of more
importance, and can be eliminated by attention to the habits of the
children, though this is not so simple a matter as it appears.
Taking all the cases in which myopia occurred, including mixed
astigmatism, and expressing them as a percentage of the total
school population, the figure is 2.4. Previous years show an average
percentage of about 2. The percentage of squints among the
school children of Leyton is 1.4, as against 0.9 over a period of