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Routine audiometer testing—The numbers of children given ' rapid-sweep ' audiometer
tests during 1964 are as follows:
Pupils given screening tests 59,052
Pupils failing screening tests and given pure tone tests 4,481
Pupils failing pure tone tests and referred to otologists 1,720
Speech therapv—By the end of the year 310 sessions a week were being held, 148 in
54 clinics and 162 in special schools. During the year 1,314 pupils were assessed as requiring
speech therapy (including two recommendations for boarding schools), 618 were discharged
from treatment and 289 ceased to attend. The number of pupils under treatment at the end
of the year was 2,592 and 327 were on the waiting list.

* Some cases are kept' under review 'for a time after active treatment has ceased; others are closed as soon
as active treatment has ceased, any further visits, etc., being regarded as ' follow up '.
Student health service
The student health service continued to function during 1964 at the London College of
Fashion (formerly Barrett Street Technical College), Westminster Technical College and
Brixton Day College where the service was extended to include students from the Brixton
School of Building.
At the City of Westminster College the demand for the service was not sufficient to
justify its continuance and a medical advisory service was introduced instead.
It was decided to bring the London College of Printing into the scheme as soon as
practicable.
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