Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Nf 378.944 UNI
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Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
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1976, no. 17 (18-31 Oct., 1976)
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UNIKEN  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

SPORT AND  

RECREATION  

NEWS  

No. 17 of 1976  

18-31 October  

AUSTRALIAN  

CHAIR OF  

OPTOMETRY  

The first Chair of Optometry in Australia has gone to  

Professor Josef Lederer. He has been appointed Professor  

of Optometry in the School of Applied Physics and  

Optometry and will become Head of the School of  

Optometry when it becomes separate School on  

January 1977.  

The Department of Optometry at UNSW is one of only  

three institutions training optometrists in Australia.  

Because there are no recognised courses in optometry in  

many countries of the Pacific region such as Indonesia,  

Fiji, Malaysia and Singapore, the Department of Optometry  

also trains many overseas optometrists.  

"In the past 30 years optometry has developed more  

rapidly than any other profession at any time in history,"  

says Professor Lederer. Great advances have been made in  

the science of optometry and in its academic status. He  

sees the change in Optometry from Department to  

School as recognition of the "firm establishment of  

optometry as an academic discipline".  

The Department of Optometry has shown very large  

growth in numbers of students in the past four years.  

Total numbers of students have risen from 115 in 1973 to  

316 in 1976. First-year student numbers have gone from  

43 in 1973 to 138 in 1976. "There is very great demand  

for optometrists in Australia," says Professor Lederer.  

None of the students finishing their courses this year will  

have any trouble entering practice he believes.  

"In the next three years our biggest problem is to gear the  

School to cope with the large number of students we are  

getting," he says, with possiblity of shortage of  

facilities and clinical material. The massive growth in  

Optometry will be slowed somewhat in 1977 because the  

University is instituting quotas for Optometry for the first  

time.  

Professor Lederer has been part of the many changes in  

optometry teaching that place over the past  

decades. After finishing the optometry diploma course at  

Sydney Technical College in 1944 he became Australia's  

first full-time optometric academic in 1947 when he was  

appointed Lecturer in Optometry at the same College.  

He was foundation member of the Department of  

Optometry when it became part of the University in 1950.  

Professor Lederer received his BSc from the University of  

Sydney in 1949 and his MSc from UNSW in 1956. He is  

specialist in optical aids for the partially sighted and in  

1354 developed what became known as Lederer Lenses  

spectacle magnifiers that were able to help legally blind  

people to see.  

He has been member of the Board of Optometric  

Registration of New South Wales since 1955 and  

member of the Optical Dispensers' Licensing Board since  

1963.  

Breathtaking  

experience at  

Prince Henry  

Hospital  

Prince Henry patient, Mrs  

Beryl Bonnet of Engadine is  

completely sealed in body  

plethysmograph and breathes  

through tube into the room  

while Associate Professor John  

Colebatch supervises the test.  

The operator. Cliff Ng talks to  

Mrs Bonnet through headset  

while he monitors the volume,  

pressure and flow of her  

breathing on chart. This data  

goes into POP 11 computer  

run by Nicholas Nikov, at rear  

(Mr Nikov js son of Mrs  

"Nicky" Nikov, Senior Tutor  

in the School of Mathematics).  

The computer stores the data  

on cassette and later analyses  

it and plots graphs of the  

important variables.  

LUNG BEHAVIOUR 'ON LINE’  

research group in the University's School of Medicine  

has developed unique system of "on-line" study of the  

mechanical behaviour of the lungs. This is believed to be  

the first such system fully operational in the world.  

Working at Prince Henry Hospital, Associate Professor  

John (H.J.H.) Colebatch has successfully linked patients  

and small computer to provide vital data on the patients'  

lungs which reflect their internal structure. The new  

system reduces the data almost instantly into graphs  

which are proving highly valuable in diagnosis, treatment  

and research on respiratory ailments (see picture page 2).  

Previous manual systems were so slow that week could  

elapse before the results of tests on patient could be  

finally analysed, rendering the system impractical for  

clinical situations.  

The medical value of the new system is now being realised  

on routine basis at Prince Henry Hospital, one of the  

University's teaching hospitals. The structural changes in  

diseased lungs can now be deduced from tests taking  

about an hour. Previously, doctors could only obtain such  

detailed information too late through autopsies after  

death!  

(continued p. 2)  

SAVING OUR WRITTEN HERITAGE  

laboratory to familiarise students with techniques for  

the conservation of documents, books, maps, charts and  

other records has been established in the School of Librar-  

ianship. The laboratory, first of its kind in an Australian  

university, is part of the program of instruction within the  

course leading to Diploma in Archives Administration.  

Professor Melvin Weinstock, Head of the School of Librar-  

ianship, says, "The course covers techniques for the  

conservation of materials deteriorating through age,  

damage from natural disasters such as flood and fire,  

insect and mould damage and chemical deterioration. The  

state of much of Australia's official records, library and  

archival collections, and early objects of art is deplorable  

because of years of neglect and unsuitable storage  

environments."  

National concern about the state of Australian archival  

material was expressed at recent conference sponsored  

by the Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material.  

Professor Robert Neale, Director-General of the Australian  

Archives, described the history of neglect of archival  

material unique to the history and activities of the  

Australian government and its people. He noted that the  

Australian Archives had only one conservator to treat  

problems such as mould, insect pests and deterioration.  

He called for the establishment of training courses to  

tackle the conservation problem.  

The conservation laboratory at UNSW has been set up to  

provide archivists with an understanding of conservation  

problems and techniques. Among the areas covered in the  

laboratory are demonstrations, discussions and experiments  

relative to the many factors which cause deterioration  

and/or destruction of archival material; familiarisation  

with the physical and chemical composition of such  

material; mould and methods of control; insect and  

rodent control; emergency measures and salvage following  

natural or man-made environmental disaster*; binding  

books and repairing book bindings; and cleaning, repairing,  

laminating, inlaying, de-acidifying and storing documents.  

The laboratory has been established by the co-operative  

efforts of Mr Peter Orlovich, Lecturer in Archives Admin-  

istration, and Mr Neville Corbett, former Conservator of  

the Australian Archives, who is the instructor. The labor-  

atory course is offered to students along with workshop  

and seminar programs involving the participation of arch-  

ivists, librarians and conservators on select aspects of  

conservation in archives and libraries. It is hoped that this  

will facilitate the exchange of ideas and information on  

techniques and developments in the field of archival and  

library conservation.  

Professor Lederer in vision examination room.  

Students John Shipp and Gail Hessleman examine old records  

before learning how to repair and preserve them.  

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