Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick]
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(b)Spectacle precribed | 136 | |
No spectacles necessary | 7 | |
No change necessary | 4 | |
Spectacles still to be claimed at end of the year | 11 | |
Still under examination | 4 | |
Uncompleted (left district or completed elsewhere) | ||
Squint | 12 | |
Chronic Blepharitis | 7 | |
Phlyctenular Ulcer | 1 | |
Corneal Opacities | ||
Nystagmus | 1 | |
Ptosis | 1 | |
Marked increased tension | 1 |
Less than | ||||||||
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6/6 | 6/9 | 6/12 | 6/18 | 6/24 | 6/36 | 6/60 | 6/60 | |
Number of Children | 10 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 45 | 33 | 10 | 21 |
Totally blind one eye—2. |
(e) Varieties of Refractive Errors:—
Hypermetropia (long sight) | 55 | 100 |
Simple Hypermetropic Astigmatism | 12 | |
Compound Hypermetropic Astigmatism | 33 | |
Myopia (short sight) | 28 | 39 |
Simple Myopic Astigmatism | 3 | |
Compound Myopic Astigmatism | 8 | |
Mixed Astigmatism | 8 | |
Emmetropic of normal sighted | 7 | |
154 |
One of the children—a boy aged eight years—was
found to be suffering from so high a degree of Myopia that it
was necessary to send him to a Special School.
(f Ear Diseases and Defective Hearing.—Twenty-six
cases of impaired hearing were seen, and 18 were treated for