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Another interesting point is the enormous variety of jobs that
the older boys and girls, who visit my clinic, take on. Some of
the jobs are of the highest quality in professions. They also have
worked extremely well in carrying out their exercises and do appreciate
the value of them in their future jobs and lives. We are delighted
to have Mrs. Allardyce back as our physiotherapist and would like to
thank Miss Claydon for the way she has run and organised the clinic".
Audiometry
The tables below give the numbers and results of audiometry
tests during 1963. It is now arranged that children due to have
periodic medical inspections at the ages of five, eight and eleven,
first have an audiogram. Those children failing audiometry have
a full audiograph prepared and this is available for the school medical
officer when the inspection is made. In this way the school medical
officer is able to discuss with the head teacher the child's progress in
school, to arrange a seating position in class favourable for hearing
and to follow up with any other investigations necessary. The
standards for passing audiometry are set purposely high, and of the
614 children failing first tests in 1963, a very large proportion were
found to respond to simple measures or not to need treatment. As
would be expected, the percentage failing re-tests was high because
these children had either been referred specially because deafness
was suspected or were already under treatment.