A study in short-sight in public elementary schools

[摘要] Since Cohn’s investigation ofthe cause a of short- sight and the striking evidence which he brought forward as to the part which Education played in connection therewith, we have been accustomed to regard the schools as the "hot bed" of myopia. In viewofthe apparently conclusive nature of the statistics obtained by Cohnafter an examination ofover 10,000 scholars in German Schools, supplemented, as these have been, by the work of Snellen, Priestley Smith, Straub (Amsterdam) and many other eminent ophthalmologists, one reads with something of surprise the memoir or Pearson and Barrington “ A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision, and of the relative influence of Heredity and Environment on Sigh “. In this memoir, which was issued in 1909 under "the auspice of the Eugenic Laboratory of London University, theauthors have carefully analysed, by modern statistical methods, much ofthe evidence adduced in support, of the generally accepted theory "that short- sight is largely the resultofEducational Environment.

[发布机构] University:University of Birmingham;Department:Medical School

[关键词] R Medicine;RA Public aspects of medicine