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Audiometry
Two Audiometer Operators carry out 3 rountine hearing tests during the school
life of those children in the Borough attending the Authority's schools and also test, as
special cases, those children suspected of having a hearing loss.
Sweep tests 12,126
Re-tests 474
Special tests 2,114
Re-tests 408
Audiology
The Consultant Otologist sees those children referred for further investigation
of a loss of hearing at either the Tottenham or Neasden Audiology Unit.
Much useful work has been done by the Authority's peripatetic teacher of the
deaf in the supervision and training of children in ordinary schools with a significant
degree of hearing loss.
During the year 10 children were provided with hearing aids and at the end of
the year 98 school children were known to have hearing aids.
Child Guidance Service
Under the joint administrative responsibility of the Chief Education Officer and
myself the Local Authority Child Guidance Service operates from centres at:-
304 Regents Park Road,
Finchley, N.3
with Dr. A.D. Black, Consultant Child Psychiatrist as the Medical Director, and
The Health Clinic,
Vale Drive,
Barnet, Herts.
where Dr. Gross is acting in a locum tenens capacity as Consultant Child Psychiatrist
and Medical Director following Dr. Todes' resignation from this position in the earlypart
of the year.
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