Defective Eyesight.
{(jticmbm' Journal.) A specialist interested in the question^ children's eight lately tested the vision of fifty boys, indifferently ohosen from a pnblio elementary school in London. Only twenty-three out of the fifty were found to poesessnormal sight* " twenty moreonly attained an average visional value of three-quarters j and the remainder were not more than half, one being as low as one-fifth." None of these boys had ever worn glasses, and as we farther learn that few could afford to purchase such aids to sight, it is perhaps a fair inference to assume that defective nutrition, owing to privation, may be at the bottom of the mischief. The subject is one of such great importance that itj should bo taken up and thoroQgbiy-iß^alTed-lnto.^jrjthe^
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6705, 19 November 1889, Page 2
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124Defective Eyesight. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6705, 19 November 1889, Page 2
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