[Report 1912] / School Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough.

  • Todmorden (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1913
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    Thus out of 511 cases “followed up” during the year, 382 cases have been brought under some form of remedial treatment, 148 cases having been cured and 196 cases improved. The leakage in untreated cases is much less than last year, but the bulk of the leakage is again in the eye cases, and is mainly accounted for by persistent delay owing to marked prejudice on the part of some parents against the use of Spectacles. In the referred eye cases, the defects were found to be proportioned as follows: Compound Myopic Astigmatism, 35 per cent. Compound Hypermetropic Astigmatism, 15 per cent. Simple Myopic Astigmatism, 5 per cent. Simple Hypermetropic Astigmatism, 5 per cent. Myopia, 25 per cent. Hypermetropia, 15 per cent, PROVISION OF SPECTACLES. Spectacles have been prescribed by the School Medical Officer after examination by retinoscope, in 20 cases, and the spectacles have been supplied by the Education Committee. In 23 instances the spectacles found necessary after re-examination were procured either privately or through an institutional source in Manchester or Liverpool. THANKS, etc. * My thanks are due to the Members of the Sub-Committee supervising the work of Medical Inspection for the amount of trust bestowed on me, and for the amount of help they have given me in my work. I also wish to thank Mr. James Whitehead, Clerk to the Education Committee, for his kindly assistance on all occasions on which it has been necessary to appeal to him. I)r. C. W. Thorp again merits my warmest thanks for his hearty co-operation in the performance of our joint official duties. I am, Your obedient servant. J. LAWSON RUSSELL.