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MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Minor Ailments Clinic.
Attendances.
During the year 1,494 children attended the clinic, and 3,620
attendances were registered.
Defective Vision—Of the 1,780 children subjected to routine
code group inspection in the schools, 127 (7.1 per cent.) were
found to be suffering from some eye defect requiring treatment
Special Eye Clinic.—
During the year, the Ophthalmic Surgeon had referred to him
512 children, who made 559 attendances for examination and
treatment.
Report by the Authority's Ophthalmic Surgeon (J. D. Magor
Cardell, M B., B.S., F.R.C.S.).
The work of the Eye Clinic has been influenced by evacuation
and by war conditions generally. The number of children attending
the clinic has been greatly reduced and the school population
having been in a fluctuating state, it is not possible to record the
relative incidence of myopia or other defects.
That many children have spent much time in badly lit shelters
reading or otherwise focussing on near objects must uncover and
emphasise ocular defects which, under better conditions, would not
have become noticeable. Such defects will probably come under
observation in the future.
It must be recorded that, though there is ample opportunity
of detecting any nervousness during the routine examination of
children's eyes, no evil effects from exposure to air raids could be
detected. The children of Leyton must obviously be made of the
same resilient stuff as is found in the rest of the country.
Squint Clinic.
Report by Orthoptist (Miss G. Montague Smith).
The following table classifies the cases dealt with at the
special Squint Clinic during the past year. For many children the