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daytime sessions. All other children are afforded emergency
treatment only, except those in some senior schools who are offered
the opportunity of attending during an evening session. This
restricted scheme will be discontinued when the staffing position
admits.

EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE
Mr. Arthur Miller, F.R.C.S., D.L.O., Consulting Otologist,
conducts special Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics at the Mattock Dane
and Ravenor Park Health Centres.
Cases are referred to him from the local Doctors, Minor
Ailment Clinics, School Nurses and Teachers, on account of Ear,
Nose and Throat trouble, including deafness and infection of the
Para-nasal sinuses and speech defects.
The service of testing children's hearing at school has continued
during the year and Pure Tone Audiometric tests for precise
evaluation of hearing defects were done to children who have not
passed the usual gramophone tests at school.
Appropriate treatment to remedy the deafness was administered
at the above clinics and subsequent control tests have shown that
the hearing had improved in very many children.
The tonsils waiting list is now only a small one and 245
operations were performed during the year, as compared to 75 in
the previous year.
Altogether 181 new cases were seen, and 464 Re-inspections,
giving a total of 645 attendances. Medical Treatment was advised
in 308 cases and operations advised in 134.
AUDIOMETRY SURVEY
I very much regret to report that during the year, Mrs. G. V.
Chambers, the audiometer operator died after a short illness and
was replaced by Mrs. A. D. Wood.
In the summer months while Mrs. Wood was being trained
in the use of the gramophone and pure tone audiometer, little
testing was done—but testing recommenced in the last quarter
of the year.