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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Croydon 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: AUDIOLOGY CLINIC Numbers attending Croydon Bay Schools and Pre-School Children

AUDIOLOGY CLINIC Numbers attending Croydon Bay Schools and Pre-School Children

(a) With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular auditory training:
Primary School Pupils42
Secondary School Pupils24
Pre-School Children15
Pure Tone Audiometer TestsTotal81
Number of individual children tested during the year.
(a) For the first time203
(b) As a review caseTotal248 451

Table: Auditory Training

Auditory Training

81 individual children received regular auditory training during the year. Number of attendance sessions:
(a) At the Audiology Clinic176
(b) At home or school278
Total454
Sweep Testing of five year old school entrants:
Number of schools visited57
Number of children tested4,721
Number of children passed3,878
Number of children failed378
Number of children to be re-tested465
Number of children not tested387
(absent or unco-operative)

Table: The failures were re-assessed as follows:

The failures were re-assessed as follows:

No hearing loss58
Negligible hearing loss34
Slight hearing loss61
Moderate hearing loss132
Moderately severe hearing loss48
Severe hearing loss5
Failed to keep appointment19
Left district6
Waiting to be tested15
Total378