Rules regarding defects of vision which disqualify candidates for admission into the various departments of the Indian Government Service / by J. Fayrer ; with appendix containing the regulations as to range of vision necessary to qualify a candidate for admission into the Royal Navy, British Army and Civil Service.

Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 1824-1907.

Date:: 1886

Credit: Rules regarding defects of vision which disqualify candidates for admission into the various departments of the Indian Government Service / by J. Fayrer ; with appendix containing the regulations as to range of vision necessary to qualify a candidate for admission into the Royal Navy, British Army and Civil Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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( ) 2 2 for the service, provided the conihined spherical and c}dindrical glasses required to correct the ametropia do not exceed — 5 D.; the acuteness of vision in one eye when so corrected being equal to and in the other eye f; the accommodation being normal with the correcting glasses, and no progressive morbid changes of the choroid or retina being present. 3. A candidate having latent hypermetropia not exceeding 5 D. is not disqualified for the service, provided the sight in one eye (when under the effect of atropine) equal and in the other f, with + 5 D. or any lower power. 4. Hypermetropic astigmatism does not disqualify a can- didate for the service, provided the combined lens required to correct the latent hypermetropia do not exceed 5 D. The acuteness of vision in one eye must equal -fir, and in the other f, with or without the correcting glass. 5. A candidate may be accepted with a faint nebula of one cornea, reducing the vision to -jA, provided the eye in other respects be healthy. In such a case the better eye must be emmetropic and possess normal vision. Defects of vision arising from pathological or other changes in the eye, which are not referred to in the above rules, exclude a candidate for admission into the Indian Medical Service. 6. A candidate is disqualified if he cannot distinguish tlie principal colours, red, green, violet or blue, yellow, and their various shades (Dischromatopsia). 7. Paralysis of one or more of the exterior muscles of the eyeball disqualifies a candidate for the Indian Medical Service. A candidate may be accepted who is said to have been cured of strabismus by operation, but without restora- tion of binocular vision, if with correcting glasses the vision come up to the standard laid down in the above rules, and

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