[Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Treatment carried out at the Eye Clinic—Children who were found by the Assistant Medical Officers to require spectacles, and whose ])arents were not in a position to secure the necessary attention privately, were seen at the Eye Clinic by Dr. Campbell Brown in the earlier, and by Dr. A. E. Balmain in the later part of the year. During the year 312 new cases were examined, 485 children attended for re-examination, and 518 pairs of spectacles were supplied. The total cost of all the spectacles which were ordered during the year was £109 4s. 8d. ; of this, £80 7s. Id. was recovered from the parents. The following is a summary of the visual defects of cases (new or re examined) for whom spectacles were prescribed during the year-— Hypermetropic group: Hypermetropia 117 20,7 Hyp. Astigmatism 226 39.9 Myopic group: Myopia 70 12.3 Myopic Astig 75 13.2 Mixed Astig 54 9.5 Heterometropia 21 3.7 Emmetropia 4 .7 567 100 The follow'ing conditions were also recorded among the new cases who attended the clinic:— Catarzict 2 Nystagmus 2 Coloboma iris and choroid 1 Corneal opacities 4 Optic neuritis 2 Optic atrophy 1 Conical cornea 1 ^ Amblyopia 1 'I’he cases of strabismus in new cases noted during the year were I as follows:— Convergent: Right eye, 18; left eye, 21; alternating, 2; double, 2. Divergent: Left eye, 1. Treatment carried out at the X-Rays Clinic—Comparison with last year’s figures shows a notable decrease in the number of cases of ringworm of the scalp. There can be little doubt that for this decrease treatment by X-Eays has been largely responsible, the rapidity of this treatment reducing greatly the period of infectivity of the disease and so minimising its spread from affected cases to t other children. During the year 55 cases were treated at the X-Eays Clinic, 53 for ringworm, 1 for favus, and 1 for alopecia. This number comprised 33 boys and 22 girls, of whom the average age was 8 years. 231 exposures to X-Eays were given; the average duration of ' exposure, which is strictly regulated by the pastille dose, was about 14 minutes. In most cases the whole scalp was done; this means an exposure to 5 separate areas of the head in order to ensure complete ; depilation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927187_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
