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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chiswick 1925
[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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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