[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1935
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Assistant Medical Officers at routine inspections in schools; but a large number was brought by parents of their own initiative for the purpose of having glasses repaired, or because they appreciated the importance in certain types of visual defect of periodical re-examination. Care is taken to secure that, so far as can be judged without any elaborate system of investigation, only those parents who are not in a position to obtain private attention to their children’s eyes are allowed to avail themselves of the facilities provided at the clinic. During the year 446 new cases were examined. Spectacles were prescribed for 288 of these, the remainder being found to be emmetroj ic or cases for wliorn spectacles were of no benefit. 550 children attended for re-examination, and 528 pairs of spectacles (new or replaced ; were supplied. The total cost of all the sj^ectacles which were ordered during the year (including those ordered for secondary school children : was T119 19s. 5d., of which the parents were required to paj^ 1:99 17s. Od. The total sum collected during the year (including arrears from j)revious years) was TlOO 9s. Id. Since October the services of Dr. D. L. Charters, the consultant ophthalmic surgeon on the staff of the ]\Iedical Officer’s Department, have been available in connection with cases of especial difficulty. The following is a summary of the visual defects of new cases for whom spectacles were prescribed during the year : First Eye Hypermctropia Hypermetropia Hypermetropic astigmatism Hypermetropic astigmatism Myopia Myopia Myopia Myopic astigmatism Myopic astigmatism Mixed astigmatism Myojna Myopia Hypei-meti-opic Astigmatism Myopic Astigmatism NoT-mal Second Eye Hypermeti-opia ''.'j Hypermetropic astigmatism ... li Hypermetropic astigmatism ... si Mixed astigmatism 7 Myojua Normal Myopic astigmatism (i Myopic astigmatism li Mixed astigmatism 1 Mixed astigmatism Hyi)ermetropia Hy])ermetropic astigmatism ... Normal i) Normal 3 Hypermctropia 1 “38S The following conditions were also recorded among the new cases who attended the clinic : Corneal nebulae 0 Nystagmus 1 Optic atrophy 2 Congenital cataract 1 Amblyopia ll The new cases of strabismus noted during the year were as follows : Convergent: Right eye 32; left eye 47; alternating 8. Divergent: Left eye 1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927291_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
