Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Additional personnel, however, require adequate facilities and, although the
audiology room provides excellent conditions in which to test the children, ancillary
accommodation is sadly lacking. For example, the audiometrician has perforce to do
her work in the Headmaster's study and, whilst his full co-operation is forthcoming,
such an arrangement cannot be considered satisfactory. Moreover, the peripatetic
teacher needs a room in which to give the individual tuition so essential for certain
children and, as adumbrated in last year's report, the time must come when impressions
for ear moulds can be taken, and hearing aids issued, at the unit itself.
AUDIOLOGY UNIT 1961
Number of cases seen: | ||||||||||||||||||
Age in years | 0- | 1- | 2- 3- | 4- | 5- | 6- | 7- | 8- | 9- | 10- | 11- | 12- | 13- | 14- | 15- | 16- | 17+ | Total |
New cases | 6 | 5 | 4 6 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 178 |
Re-examinations | - | 3 | 2 2 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 7 | - | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 65 |
Total | 243 | |||||||||||||||||
Pre-school children | 35 | |||||||||||||||||
Attending Infant and Junior Schools | 147 | |||||||||||||||||
Attending Senior Schools | 52 | |||||||||||||||||
Over five but not at school | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
Reasons for referrals among new children were as follows; | ||||||||||||||||||
For diagnosis | 132 | |||||||||||||||||
Auditory training | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Immigrants to Area known to be deaf | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Partially deaf children, advice as to placement | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
Children known to be deaf - application for | ||||||||||||||||||
admission to Blanche Nevile School or partially deaf units | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
Transfer from hospital out-patient departments or E. N. T. clinics | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
To ensure that deafness is not the cause of backwardness or ineducability | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
Source of referrals | ||||||||||||||||||
Tottenham and Hornsey | 129 | |||||||||||||||||
Other boroughs in Middlesex | 44 | |||||||||||||||||
London - neighbouring boroughs | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Essex | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Hampshire | 1 |