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 regulations as to range of vision necessary to qualify a candidate for admission into the Royal Navy, British Army and Civil Service.
- Joseph Fayrer
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 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.
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![candidates for commissions are to employ glasses in the correction of visual defects. The responsibility regarding the point appears to rest with the examining medical officer. In some instances' candidates are allowed to use the glasses with which they have provided themselves prior to the examination ; in others they have been required to select the glasses which suited them from a number of pairs of spectacles placed on a table in the examina- tion room. Visual Acuteness required in Candidates for Com- missions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.— Candidates for admission into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich fall under a special regulation. Since March 1871, by order of H.E.H. the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, these gentlemen have been required to show at their physical examination that they possess a range of \dsion which will enable them to see clearly the 2' square bull's-eye at 900 yards. In order to decide that a candidate for admission into the Artillery or Engineers possesses this required qualification, the examining medical officer will have to ascertain that he can count the square regulation army test-dots at a distance of 2 2| feet, instead of the distance of fifteen feet named in the instructions on the back of the card. If the order were applied to the circular bull's-eye three feet in diameter, the circular regulation test-dots in present use would have to be held at a distance of fifteen feet in order to prove the candidate's power of seeing the bull's-eye at 900 yards. The candidates are permitted to use ordinary concave and convex spectacles at the examination. [Candidates rejected on account of defective eyesight at the physical examination can nevertheless go up for the literary examination, and if successful, can appeal to a Special Board of Medical Officers in London as regards eyesight.] Visual Acuteness required in Candidates for Com- missions in the Line.—Simple myopia or hypermetropia is not to be held a disqualifying condition. So long as these defects can be corrected by suitable glasses they are not to exclude from admission. The practice is, that if the candidates for commissions can count the test-dots at the ordinary distances, with or without the aid of glasses, they are accepted for service so far as ^^sion is concerned. The test-dots are used in the same manner as with men seeldng enlistment in the ranks.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21648414_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
