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During 1936 the number of attendances amounted to seven
hundred and eighteen. As has been mentioned in section 6 of
the Report the children attending the Refraction Clinic are
now followed up in the schools by the school medical inspector
and appointments to re-attend at the Refraction Clinic are
arranged as the result of these re-examinations. This has
lessened to a great extent the congestion which formerly
occurred at this clinic when children automatically returned at
the end of a certain period.

Included in the above table are fifteen children whose
degree of myopia was found to be greater than minus four
dioptres. Where necessary, instructions were sent to the Head
Teachers of the schools which these children attended, modifying
the curriculum with a view to preventing the condition
becoming more marked. Similar advice was also given to the
parents. Children suffering from myopia are re-examined at
the clinic on an average twice a year.
In the case of children with high myopia, arrangements
are made for them to attend a myope or sight-saving school
when the degree of short sight is found to be increasing.
Two such children were admitted to myope schools during
1937.
In very few instances is difficulty experienced in persuading
parents to provide spectacles for their children. The