[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 miiitt reiterate that* unlike most other schools for the af$. the Llandrindod Welle Residential School has a number of .c:pils with multiple defeats* and these include some 'Children who arc. *vborderline” cases for education in any school* and who* if excluded* might he relegated to home care or attendance at a Junior Training Centre Tearing tests continue to fca made of all entrants to the ith the Peter® s Tone Audiometer as soon as possible an: .?■ ..?ir admission* and an audiometric test is made of every child in the school at least once a year® The Audiometer has biennial servicing and recalibrating® CroyTP REARING AIDS Some speech audiometry is done by using Speech Training Hearing Aids* and the use of standardised induction loops* IISIVIDi;AL HEAR XRG_ A IPS Every child is given a. hearing aid so that the stimulus to mental development which even a small residue of hearing can give, is made use off In 10 eases* commercial hearing aids, giving greater amplification than Medreseo Aids* were recommended by Mr® Growther. Consultant Ear* Rose and Throat Surgeon to the School* and in all but one case* the sending authority has supplied the aid recommended. The total number of commercial aids supplied to pupils at the school i® now twenty two (22) c MEDICAL INSPECTIONS g v'l'i >—- 1 jr— —i ST.EJS- tts —•a.—ii.!—.'■-i ~—ixr TT-cra • As in former years* every child ie inspected by the School Medical Officer as soon as possible after admission to the school and each year thereafter. The School Nurse is present at each inspection. Statistics of the finding® tat euch inspections are appended its usual..