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Tottenham 1961

[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 years0-1-2- 3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17+Total
New cases654 6131821248161013898441178
Re-examinations-32 288127-537222-1165
Total243
Pre-school children35
Attending Infant and Junior Schools147
Attending Senior Schools52
Over five but not at school9
Reasons for referrals among new children were as follows;
For diagnosis132
Auditory training2
Immigrants to Area known to be deaf4
Partially deaf children, advice as to placement12
Children known to be deaf - application for
admission to Blanche Nevile School or partially deaf units7
Transfer from hospital out-patient departments or E. N. T. clinics13
To ensure that deafness is not the cause of backwardness or ineducability8
Source of referrals
Tottenham and Hornsey129
Other boroughs in Middlesex44
London - neighbouring boroughs3
Essex1
Hampshire1