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(d) Skin Diseases.
For the most part these are treated at the General Clinic, but
some cases of chronic and of the rarer skin diseases are referred
to hospital.
(e) External Eye Disease.
One hundred and four cases (87 in 1935) of external eye
disease were treated at the School Clinics.
(f) Vision.
During the year 1936, the Ophthalmic Clinic was held on five
sessions per fortnight.
Five hundred and twenty-five accepted treatment in respect
of visual defect during the year 1936 (of these 17 children with
markedly defective vision had not been seen by the Ophthalmic
Surgeon) and, including 83 cases awaiting treatment at the termination
of the year 1935, 591 cases have been treated in the past
year.
A Sight-saving Class at Monega Road School was opened by
the Education Committee in June, 1928, 14 children are in attendance
at this class, and they are all kept under observation by the
Ophthalmic Surgeon at intervals.
Mr. S. C. Reeve-Flaxman, the Ophthalmic Surgeon, reports
as follows:—
General Clinic.
Number of new cases 591
Glasses prescribed 369
Glasses not necessary 224
Glasses obtained 362
Special treatment 77
Re-examinations 2058
Discharged 201
Strabismus operation at Royal Westminster
Hospital 2
Eye removed (Glioma) at Royal Westminster
Hospital 1
Sent to Swanley (Blepharitis) 1