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HEARING OF SCHOOL CHILEREN
Miss Smart, Audiometrician, continued her audiometric surveys in West Ham schools,
using the pure tone audiometer. Miss Smart, who is employed jointly by the County Borough
of West Ham and the Regional Hospital Board, gives six sessions a week to the hospital
service and five sessions to West Ham. The work for the local authority comprises audiometric
surveys of school children both in ordinary and in special schools, work in the
Audiology Clinic, the taking of impressions of children's ears prior to the making of ear
moulds for hearing aids. The aids themselves are supplied through the London Hospital.
During the year the following work was carried out mainly by surveys of Children
in the 6+ to 10+ age range in schools. A number of individual children have also been
tested prior to ascertainment as Educationally Subnormal or as ineducable or because of
speech defects or other symptoms.
Number of children tested 4,439
Number of children re-tested 285
Number referred to school medical
officers for further investigations 172
By the end of the year 116 out of the 172 who failed the audiometric test had
been investigated by the school medical officers, with the co-operation of the children's
family doctors.
70 oases were referred to the Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
46 cases were dealt with by the school doctor
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