Regulations as to defects of vision which disqualify candidates for admission into the civil or military government services / by J. Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1887
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Credit: Regulations as to defects of vision which disqualify candidates for admission into the civil or military government services / by J. Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    without the aid of glasses, at any distance the candidate may select. Squint, inability to distinguish the principal colours, or any morbid condition, subject to the risk of aggravation or recur- rence in either eye, will cause the rejection of a candidate. ROYAL NAVY. 1. A candidate is disqualified unless both eyes are emmetropic. The candidate’s acuteness of vision and range of accommodation must be perfect. 2. A candidate is disqualified by any imperfection of his colour sense. , 3. Strabismus, or any defective action of the exterior muscles of the eyeball, disqualifies a candidate for the Royal Navy. THE HOME CIVIL SERVICE. With reference to the Home Civil Service, the Commis- sioners refer each case to “ a competent medical adviser, leaving him to apply whatever tests he may deem suitable, and whatever standard the particular situation may require.” THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE (Covenanted and Uncovenanted). 1. A candidate may be admitted into the Civil Service of the Government of India, if ametropic in one or both eyes, provided that with correcting lenses the acuteness of vision be not less than £ in one eye, and § in the other ; there being no morbid changes in the fundus of either eye.
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