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The increasing amount of work done in this department is
seen from the following table:—
Total number of individual children examined by the School
Oculist:—
1916 60
1917 276
1918 189
1919 368
1920 464
1921 490
1922 458
1923 585
Of the 585 cases, 451 were referred as a result of medical
inspection, and 134 from the School Clinic.
Of the 585 children examined, 499 were found to require
spectacles by reason of the following defects:—
Myopia 49
Myopic Astigmatism 40
Hypermetropia 136
Hypermetropic Astigmatism 149
Mixed Astigmatism 50
Anisometropia 26
Myopia with Squint 11
Squint only 12
Hypermetropia with Squint 26
Total 499
Of the remaining 86 children, 14 were suffering from the
following other diseases:—
Corneal Ulcers, Nebulae, etc. 4
Retinal Diseases 3
Persistent Pupillary Membrane 1
Nystagmus 2
Congenital Capsular Opacities 1
Other diseases 3
Total 14
66 children were found not to require spectacles, and 6
required operative treatment and were recommended to a hospital.
A number of children (29) were kept under observation and
were re-examined during the year, the spectacles being changed
in 16 instances.