Ophthalmia : report on ophthalmia in the Metropolitan pauper schools / by Edward Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
1875
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    II Severe damages (patient unable with the damaged eye to dis- tin^ruish small objects at all, or at best only with difficulty and when held close to the eyes ; enough sight for various household or other unskilled employments). , , , M 1 f Both eyes - 35 Total, 66 chddren I J gyg^^j^ - 31 6 of these (2 with both eyes damaged, 4 with one eye each) occurred outside the schools. 10 cases are likely to improve. 8 are accompanied and increased by inherited syphilitic disease. III. Moderate damage (patient partially disabled for seeing small objects, e.g. needlework and reading, but able to do these with more or less difficulty). Total. 229 cMMre.{f;VeS I 2 6 of these (3 with both eyes damaged, 3 with one eye each) occurred outside the schools. 15 cases (9 both damaged, 6 with one eye each) will probably improve. 6 cases (4 both damaged, 2 with one each) are likely to get worse. • 4 cases are accompanied and increased by heredito-syphilitic disease. IV. Slight damage (sight a little impaired by small specks at or close to the centre of the cornea). To«, 358 cM,dren{Bo';^S 11 cases (4 with both damaged, 7 with one eye each) will improve. 6 cases (2 with both damaged, 4 with one eye each) are likely to get worse. V. Very slight damage (cases like the former but slighter in degree). Total, 78 children {f-VeS I % VI. No damage (opacities and iiTegularities which from their position could not interfere at all with sight). Total, 21 children / ' 1^ 1 eye each - 17 I made no attempt to ascertain how many of the damages headed slight and very slight had occurred before the children entered the schools. I shall, however, bring evidence to show that most of the slighter damages have occurred in the schools, while with regard to the great majority of the graver ones there is no doubt at all that this is the case. (See also Appendix, p. 59.) The total number of corneal damages from all other causes {nan- not due to ophthalmic damages) was 59 or just '66 per cent, of all the childi'cn. Ophthalmia. Ophthalmic State of the Schools separately.—I propose here to give the leading differences between the various schools, or groups of schools nearly resembling one another, in the proportions of healthy, predis- posed, actively diseased, «fec. (For tables giving full details for each school see Appendix, p. 71 et seq.) A few words of caution are needed, however, as to the amount of mild ophthalmia (measured by the number of children with discharge from the eyes) in the several schools. The order of merit of the schools in this respect is liable to considcjrable variations from time to time. The order in which I have placed them must be taken to represent