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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
| Primary School Pupils | 26 |
| Secondary School Pupils | 2 |
| Pre-School Pupils | 13 |
| 41 |
Pure Tone Audiometer Tests. (Excluding Sweep Test Failures).
| 302 | |
| 368 | |
| 670 |
Auditory Training
44 individual children received regular auditory training during the year. Number of attendance sessions:
| 221 | |
| 152 | |
| 373 |
Sweep Testing of Five Year Old School Entrants
| Number of schools visited | 64 |
| Number of children tested | 7,118 |
| Number of children passed | 5,296 |
| Number of children failed | 525 |
| Number of children to be re-tested | 818 |
| Number of children not tested (absent or unco-operative). | 479 |
The failures were re-assessed as follows:—
| No hearing loss | 150 |
| Slight hearing loss | 184 |
| Moderate hearing loss | 105 |
| Moderately severe hearing loss | 26 |
| Severe hearing loss | 5 |
| Failed to keep appointments | 28 |
| Left district | 17 |
| Waiting to be tested | 10 |
| 525 |
Issue of Hearing Aids
| 4 | |
| 10 | |
| 14 |
10 children under school age are using hearing aids.