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EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE
Mr. Arthur Miller, Consulting Otologist, reports:-
Children suffering from mouth breathing, sore throats,
nasal, Eustachian and middle ear catarrh, which is often
associated with deafness, also children who have not passed
the gramophone and pure tone audiometry test, are referred
to see me by the Medical Officers.
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The cause of the trouble was often found to be due to
enlarged adenoids and turbinates, sinusitis and infected
tonsils. It has been very helpful to get an X ray confirmation
of the sinus infection from King Edward memorial
Hospital and great use has been made of the facilities
provided.
The treatment administered was diastolisation, politz
eration and Eustachian catherisation as well as breathing
exercises. In cases where sinusitis was confirmed, Proetz
displacement treatment was practised.
1954 1955
Number of new cases 198 193
Number of Re-inspections 369 301
Total attendances 667 494
Number treatment advised 364 227
Number operation advised 160 106
Audiometry Report
Number of schools visited 16
Number of children examined 6 700
Number of children with hearing loss 103
Number of pure tone tests 123
Number referred to E.N,T. Specialist 71
FOOT HEALTH
A specially trained nurse has again inspected 8,972
children's feet in 30 schools this year, of whom 205,
together with children under five referred from the Welfare