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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 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: AUDIOLOGY CLINIC

AUDIOLOGY CLINIC

Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
(a) With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular supervision:
Pre School Pupils14
Primary School Pupils27
Secondary School PupilsNil
Total41

Table: Pure Tone Audiometer Tests. (Excluding Sweep Test Failures).

Pure Tone Audiometer Tests. (Excluding Sweep Test Failures).

(a) Tested for the first time342
(b) Tested as a review case309
Total651

Table: Auditory Training

Auditory Training

39children received regular auditory training during the year. Number of attendance sessions;
(a) At the Audiology Clinic197
(b) At home135
Total332

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Sweep Testing of Five Year Old School Entrants
Number of schools visited 65
Number of children tested 7,096
Number of children passed 5,702
Number of children failed 632
Number of children to be re-tested 762
Number of children not tested 512
(absent or unco-operative).

Table: The failures were re-assessed as follows:

The failures were re-assessed as follows:

No hearing loss126
Slight hearing loss244
Moderate hearing loss141
Moderately severe hearing loss54
Severe hearing loss4
Failed to keep appointments31
Left district20
Waiting to be tested12
Total632

Table: Issue of Hearing Aids

Issue of Hearing Aids

(a) National Health Service 'Medresco' Aids9
(b) Commercial aids bought by Croydon L.E.A.1
Total10

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12 children under school age are using hearing aids.