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Ear Clinic.—Dr. Friel kindly reports as follows:—

The number ''lost sight of'' is made up as follows:—
Left School 2
Attending own Doctor 1
"During 1936 the Aural Clinic has been conducted on the same
method as in previous years. Patients are given written appointments
stating the day and definite time for their next visit. The
arrangement avoids temporary congestion in the clinic and dissatisfaction
in the waiting room. The patients are called in the
order in which their names are written in the appointment book
and not in the order they arrive.
''Discharging Ears.—A certain number of patients have come
to the clinic with inflammation of the external ear due to infection
with the diphtheria bacillus. Local applications applied in the
usual way to the involved area do not produce a rapid cure, but
one treatment by zinc ionisation usually cures the complaint at
once.
"The audiometer is regularly used in the schools for the
detection of impaired hearing. It is the practice to concentrate on
the young children. The onset of catarrhal deafness is often started
in quite young children as a result of inflammation in the nose due
to colds. When the children are treated young or shortly after the
development of any impairment of hearing, the prospect of recovery
is very much greater than with treatment given two or three years
later. Children of 5 to 8 years of age can be tested by a series of
pictures of common objects.