Patterns on visual defects in children.

A STATISTICAL survey was carried out in November, 1953, of the records of children who attended the school ophthalmic clinic in this area. Records were available for children of pre-school age and for those attending school at the time of the analysis. The population of this industrialized county borough has been reasonably static in the last few years; it was not disrupted during the war and there has been no great shift of population since (Table I). The population attending state schools between the statutory ages of 5 and 15 was estimated from the census figures (General Register Office, 1951).