Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular supervision:
Primary School Pupils | 29 |
Secondary School Pupils | 12 |
Pre-School Pupils | 5 |
46 | |
Pure Tone Audiometer Tests. (Excluding Sweep Test Failures). | |
278 | |
305 | |
583 | |
Auditory Training | |
46 individual children received regular auditory training during the year. Number of attendance sessions: | |
105 | |
186 | |
291 | |
Sweep Testing of Five year Old School Entrants | |
Number of Schools visited | 59 |
Number of children tested | 6,528 |
Number of children passed | 4,698 |
Number of children failed | 540 |
Number of children to be re-tested | 769 |
Number of children not tested | 523 |
(absent or unco-operative) | |
The failures were re-assessed as follows: | |
No hearing loss | 173 |
Slight hearing loss | 133 |
Moderate hearing loss | 176 |
Moderately severe hearing loss | 19 |
Severe hearing loss | 3 |
Failed to keep appointments | 21 |
Left district | 8 |
Waiting to be tested | 7 |
540 | |
Issue of Hearing Aids | |
5 | |
6 | |
11 | |
4 children under school age are using hearing aids. |