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Asthma and Allergy Clinic
The asthma and allergy clinic continued during
the year under the direction of Dr R Prothero,
departmental medical officer. Forty sessions were
held during which 83 children made 288
attendances,
40
Hearing Clinic
The extension to the hearing clinic was completed
in the autumn of 1967 and was opened by
Lady Templer, President of the Commonwealth
Society for the Deaf, on 4th December. The
extension consists of a psychologist's room,
additional office and waiting accommodation and
a technician's room for the supply and repair of
hearing aids.
During the building operations the number of
visitors to the unit was restricted but the clinic
sessions continued as usual for a month in the
summer, when the decoration took place.
The number of new cases seen during the year
was 245, and 657 re-examinations were
undertaken. The total number of cases seen was
comparable with those in 1966.
A considerable amount of teaching was carried
out at the hearing clinic. Medical students from
St Bartholomew's Hospital attended in groups of
ten for clinical instruction in audiology. Speech
therapists from two schools of speech therapy
attended for instruction; Dr Fisch also lectures at
these schools. Groups of health visitors and
midwives attended for clinical demonstrations.
Many visitors from all over the country and
abroad attended individually.
A three-day course was held in January for the
training of local authority medical officers in the
'early detection of hearing loss and screening
techniques', and a two-day course was held in
October for training local authority audiometricians
in 'screening techniques'. Both these
courses were attended by staff from other London
boroughs. A number of lecture demonstrations
was arranged for health visitors, welfare officers
and local authority officers who attended as part of
in-service training schemes.
A film strip was made in conjunction with
'Camera Talks' on the screening and testing of
babies for hearing loss. This film strip has already
been shown widely all over the country at
teaching, audiology and paediatric meetings. It
has also been shown in America.