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TABLE 58

WORK OF OPHTHALMIC SERVICE 1980 AND 1981

TABLE 59

CAUSES FOR PERMANENT BLINDNESS REGISTRATION 1980 AND 1981

1980

1981

Age

1980

1981

Cause

15 & over

Under 15

Total

15 & over

Under 15

Total

(9%)

New Out-patient Attendances

60,101*

57,778

Total Out-patient Attendances

226,520*

206,226

Glaucoma

114

-

9

115

(19.3) 89

89

(21.7)

Operations Performed

Cataract

180 4 184 (30.9) 448 2

50

(12.2)

i. Hospital Major

1,6

.660*

1,810

Minor

254*

292

Total

1,914*

2,102

High refractive errore

(myopia)

Laucoma (trachoma)

37

UN

5

ལ

42

(7.0)

24

24 (5.9)

56

+

56 (9.4) 35

11.

OFD

Major

1,607

1,220

Retinitis piguentosa

N

8

Minor

Total

991

1,254

Optic atrophy

28

20

28

20 (3.4) 26

(4.7) 26

N N W

35

(8.5)

26

(6.3)

3

30

(7.3)

2,598

2,474

Diabetic Retinopathy

22

I

22 (3.7) 27

27

(6.6)

Home Visits by Health Visitors

1,391

852

Retinal detachment

4

4 (0.7) 17

17

(4.2)

Note :-

Figures revised to include service provided at Kwong Wab Hospital

Phthisis bulbi

(unidentified cause)

Senile macular degeneration

Uveitia

Retinal vascular accidents

Dysplasia

35 2 37

B ST

(6.2)

19

19

(4.6)

I

58 (9.7)

155

35

35

(8.5)

14

ON

9

(1.5)

#

8 (2.0)

in

5

I

(0.8)

3

3

(0.7)

8

5 13 (2.2) 35 9

44

(10.7)

Injuries

Keratitis

Total

2

2 (0.3) 2

2

(0.5)

1

1

1 (0.2)

*

(0.3)

578 18 596 (100.0) ||39416 410 (100.0)

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