THE BELFAST HOSPITALS No. 2. The Benn Ulster Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital

weeks ago I was very reluctantly obliged to agree with the factory doctor in an industrial towvn when he certified a child of 14i years as unfit for work amongst machinery, on account of her amblyopic eye. The child was the only nember of the household of seven earning wages, and it was most distressing that this child had to be turned away from the factory. Similar cases are senlt to me all too frequently. The ideal cure is a good cosmetic result together with equal vision in each eye (or at least 6/18 in the poorer eye) and single binocular vision. To reach this ideal, I am strongly of the opinion that our hospitals must organise squint departments, where the squinting child may have special attention and supervision from the time the squint is first noticed until adult life is reached, and that to ensure the amount of individual attention necessary for each child our surgeons must solicit the help of trained technicians, who will work in harmony with them, to gain the maximum result for the largest number of cases in the shortest possible time.