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Sweep Frequency Pure Tone Audiometry.
During 1962, 783 children were tested during their last
year in the Infants' School, i.e., during their seventh year.
Of this number 688 passed and 95 failed. The latter children
were referred to the School Medical Officers for investigation
and any minor conditions causing temporary deafness were
treated.
In addition 136 children of all age groups were tested
as special casea referred from various sources including
teachers, and of this number 62 passed and 74 failed. The
136 children mentioned above included those, children in the
main survey who had been examined by the School Medical
Officers and found to require a re.-test following treatment
or otherwise.
The 169 failed children were referred back to the School
Medical Officers for further examination and treatment.
Lastly, 145 children attended for a final audiometric
test and this number included children seen in 1961 who had
been referred by the School Medical Officers for a final test
in 6 to 12 months time. Of these 145 children, 64 passed and
81 failed. Further treatment was instituted for the latter
children either at the School Clinics or at the Ear, Nose and
Throat Department of the West Hill Hospital, Dartford, or
other Hospitals in the metropolis.
Speech Therapy.
I am indebted to Miss Joan Pollitt, Senior Speech Therapist
to the Kent Education Committee for the following
report:
Seventy-nine children attending Bexley schools have
been dealt with within the County Speech Therapy Services
during the year.
The cases of thirty-eight of these children have been
closed during the year and forty-one will attend into 1963.
Of the thirty-eight closed cases, twenty-four have been
dealt with in the Murchison Avenue Clinic, eleven at the
Woodside Road Clinic and three at the Sidcup Clinic.
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