Children showing any symptoms of eyestrain should be required to have their visual defects corrected by a competent oculist, and should be warned not to have the correction made by a quack.
Not only is such a child unable to see the world as it really is, but the eyestrain resulting from poor vision has serious effects on the child, producing all sorts of disorders.
There is repetitive strain injury and eyestrain caused by keyboards and screens, and all sorts of additional stresses that we are starting to notice.
Even the artificial light is so poor that the children must be suffering from eyestrain.
The main provision made against eyestrain in factories is the requirement of lighting which is both sufficient and suitable.
One has, therefore, in the general examination of children to examine not only for eyestrain, but for the physical causes that may be at the back of the eye strain.
At the moment the general impression that one gets in trying to read or do any work in a train is that it causes considerable eyestrain.
While flicker was not obvious on them at first, eyestrain and lack of focus nevertheless became a serious problem.
