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Report of the Principal School Medical Officer for the Year 1969
ORTHOPTIC CLINIC
During the year 26 patients were discharged from the Clinic and 60 new patients accepted for
treatment.
The numbers of school children requiring orthoptic treatment remains fairly constant, and the
importance of early investigation and treatment of any ocular defect cannot be over-emphasised.
Monthly Attendance Record—Orthoptic Clinic 1969
New
Patients
Attending for
Exercises
Attending for
test and for
Observation
Total
Failed to
Attend
January
6
4
51
61
February
5
11
37
53
March
5
8
39
52
April
3
12
51
66
May
9
–
30
39
June
3
–
44
47
July
5
2
52
59
August
3
–
20
23
September
8
7
63
78
October
7
5
47
59
November
5
6
39
50
December
1
6
26
33
TOTALS
60
61
499
620
New Patients 1969
Type of Case
Convergent strabismus
Including:
(1) With amblyopia 11
(2) Referred for surgery 5
Others 20
TOTAL 36
Divergent strabismus
(1) Latent 5
(2) Manifest, referred for surgery 0
(3) Post-operative divergence 1
TOTAL 6
Type of Case
Heterophoria andlor Convergence Deficiency 4
Amblyopia due to Anisometropia 8
Apparent Squint due to epicanthus,
narrow I.P.D., etc 3
Other categories 3
Total New Patients Referred
from School Clinics 49
New Patients Referred from
Medical Eye Centres 11
TOTAL 60