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EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE.
Mr. Arthur Miller, F.R.C.S., D.L.O., Consulting Otologist,
conducts special Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics at the Mattock
Lane and Ravenor Park Health Centres.
Cases are referred to him from local doctors, minor ailment
clinics, school nurses and teachers, on account of ear, nose and
throat trouble, including deafness and affections of the para-nasal
sinuses, and speech defects.
The service of testing children's hearing at school, which
began in 1950, has continued during 1951, as well as "pure tone
audiometric tests" for precise evaluation of hearing defects.
By this means the early stages of deafness have been ascertained
even before it was manifest to the teachers.
Appropriate treatment was administered at these Clinics
with gratifying results, as the subsequent control tests have shown.
The tonsil waiting list is still a long one and only the most
urgent cases have been done. Some of the children, with conservative
treatment administered at the Clinics, did eventually
improve to such a degree that operation is no longer required.
Altogether 75 have been operated on during 1951. The number
of new cases seen was 231, total attendances 726, re-inspections 495,
operations advised 163, treatment advised 220.
Audiometry Survey.
No. of schools visited 33
No. of children examined 8,039
No. of children with hearing loss 280
No. of "pure tone" tests 188
No. seen by Mr. Miller 53
FOOT HEALTH
Dr. Craigmile reports
"The routine foot examinations of children in maintained
schools continued throughout the year. It should be possible for
each child to be seen by the school nurse once every two years.
While the first years have found a large number of children requiring
advice, it is hoped that succeeding examinations will prove the
benefit of this supervision.