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AUDIOLOGY CLINIC
Numbers attending Croydon Day Schools and Pre-School Children
(a) With hearing sufficiently impaired to require regular supervision:
Pre-School Pupils 7
Primary School Pupils 25
Secondary School Pupils 2
34
(b) With a hearing loss requiring occasional supervision.
Pre-School Pupils Nil
Primary School Pupils 12
Secondary School Pupils 24
Pure Tone Audiometer Tests (Excluding Sweep Test Failures).
(a) Tested for the first time 386
(b) Tested as a review case 363
749
Sweep Testing of Five Year Old School Entrants
Number of schools visited 70
Number of children tested 8,217
Number of children passed 6,877
Number of children failed 722
Number of children to be re-tested 618
Number of children not tested 482
(absent or unco-operative).
The failures were re-assessed as follows:
No hearing loss 103
Slight hearing loss 276
Moderate hearing loss 206
Moderately severe hearing loss 53
Severe hearing loss 5
Failed to keep appointments 35
Left district 18
Waiting to be tested 26
Issue of Hearing Aids
(a) National Health Service 'Medresco' aids 7
(b) Commercial aids bought by Croydon L.E.A 13
20
7 children under school age are using hearing aids.