[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1934
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![first visits and 284 re-visits; and 1,915 rc-examinations of defective children were made by the Assistant Medical Officers. In addition, the Nurses paid 39 special visits. Treatment of children found, at medical inspections held during 1934, to be suffering from defects which required medical attention.— As has be,en stated above, 478 out of 4,871 children examined at routine and specdal inspections in elementary schools during 1934 were found to bo suffering from defects requiring medical attention. 348 children received treatment before the end of the year for defects found during this and the preceding year. Detads of the various types of ailment treated will be found in Table S 4. Treatment at the Eye Clinic.—Children who were found by the Assistant Medical Officers to require spectacles, and whose parents were not in a position to secure the necessary attention privately, were seen at the Eye Clinic by Dr. Williams. The large number of re-examinations carried out during the year is worthy of note. A certain proportion of these cases attended on the instructions of Dr. Williams given at the Eye Clinic or of the 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 401 new cases were examined, 633 children attended for re-examination, and 452 pairs of spectacles were supplied. The total cost of all the spectacles which were ordered during the year (including those ordered for secondary school children) was I'lll 2s. 5d., of which thq parents were required to pay £93 19s. The total sum collected during the year (including arrears from previous years) was £91 14s. 7.d. The following is a summary of the visual defects of new cases for whom spectacles were prescribed during the year : First Eye Second Eye Hypermetropia llypermetropia 97 Hypermetropia Myopic astigmatism 1 Hyf-ermetropia Hypermetropic astigmatism .. 7 Hyijermetropic astigmatism Hypermetropic astigmatism .. 03 Hypermetrorac astigmatism Mixed astigmatism 3 Mv 'pia Myopia 65 Myo] ia Normal 7 Myopia .Myopic astigmatism 3 Myopic astigmatism .Myopic .astigmatism 10 Myopic astigmatism MixeO .astigmatism 4 Mixed astigmatism .Mixed .astigmatism 2 2^2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2892728x_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
