Show charges neglect of childrens eyesight eye sight board finds conditions condition deplorable new kew york rally fully ST 37 per cent or 41 ap proximal proximately 0 ly 12 school children un on del goig vision test conducted by the united ft states ates public health service were found to have defective eyes with I 1 lesa the than standard vision according to a statement by the eye NY sight CDO conserva aloa an council of america which anyo ing the results calls call each buch conditions deplorable as aa constituting neglect ot of eyesight to iti tile the nation a schools one tenth of the children examined under the direction ot of dr 0 Tal laterro clark in charge of field investigation in child hygiene had standard vision man or 11 leas in one me or in both eyes only ly beely 10 per cent of those badly in need of f glasses it was waa pointed out were provided tied with them the tests testa part pan of a general physical examination made by officers of the public health service lc according rd irig to in a report ept of the service complied by br selwin D collins coiling associate clan embraced native white while dill dren from six to sixteen years of age 1 in tour four eastern areas spartanburg south carolina and nearby villages kinderl lin frederick derl county maryland new castle count county delaware and nassau county maity ci new york in addition 2535 2 white children underwent examination exam lon in cecil county r d maryland the results sut of uie the visual acuity tests Teg made m do with th stand standard d teat last type include go it Is 1 stated only the manifest defects the these simple test teats showed that 63 68 pr per cent of t the a children were normal in ID both eyes eye 27 arcet per cent were wen moderately detective and ad I 1 10 per m cent 11 had it only lip ales five a math tenths standard ad I 1 vision aa or less in on one or both eye wb when separated according to aee ae baya my the statement of the eve sight conservation 0 council interpreting the condl cand itic tlona revealed by the public health service it was found t that at th the number lumber of children with reached marked d defect fe B of if late vision at ym years of age go was an Ine increase tresse of it over tow four ore times the number her at six 1 I 1 eara I ot of age with marked defects there seema a to be but slight relationship ship between defective vision jet mail sex me although ther then were leaco more mom girls than boys with mod mail stately defective vision late also ther them were just J at about as a many defective right eyes ye am a there then were selective defective left eye eyes it was shown that generally the vision wom was approximately th the same on la in both em e e but in many m cabes read good vision in one ev eve we was found combined with very cry poor in the other urges examination tile the courell council which 1 Is dir directing 1139 nationwide tion wide effort far or better vision in 11 edu edl cation and industry calls the report prepared by mr collina calla striking aliki I 1 g 1 evl I deals ot of the limited extent to alc which i the eyesight of school chool child children f la being given attention adding h 1 ie such a large iona ot of school children with do defective fee five vision that evera possible effort should thou id be made to discover tb those who ared are need lessly bandi handicapped capped and to bring the matter so forcibly to the attention a of if parents that all those them I 1 in a need ot of em cor will be fitted filled with proper glasses less the report emphasized as most striking that but a small proportion of children with very poor vision were wearing 91 glasses a to improve their sight eight among the older children childre fourteen to sixteen years of age only 23 per cent of if those needing aie had gla glasse only io 10 9 0 per coal cent a of the be 9 Z cht f idren with vision five an tenth or less an wearing glasses A wrin larger proportion of if girl wen wearing glasses than the boy bay |