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REPORT OF THE OPHTHALMIC SURGEON.
To the School Medical Officer,
County Borough of East Ham
Education Committee.
February, 1931.
Sir,
I have the honour to present my report for 1930-31.
General Clinic.
Number of new cases 506
Glasses prescribed 296
Glasses not necessary 159
Glasses obtained 294
Special treatments 51
Re-examinations 1,003
Discharged 125
Operations for Squint 2
Baby Clinic.
Number of cases seen 44
Attendances 231
Number of Squints 27
Glasses prescribed 15
Treatments 11
Myope Class.
Number of pupils 20
Squint.—This condition of cross eye has shown itself in about
400 of the children now in East Ham Schools taking all ages
together. Treatment now adopted in the clinics consists in the
intensive application of the principles of Claude Worth. One
important end is to secure good acuity of vision in the squinting
eye. Eyes optically corrected by glasses, but which still squint,
commonly have defective vision in the squinting eye. Hitherto
many of those which have become straight by treatment or otherwise
have defective vision in the eye that used to squint. At the
beginning the vision may be extremely poor, the eye being unable
to fix on anything to appreciate it, probably seeing only hand
movements. It appears possible for these eyes to attain good