BOILERMAKING APPRENTICES
“Very Real Loss” Of Hearing Subjected to hammering and crashing in boilermaking, panelbeating and sheet metal trades, apprentices suffered a “very real” loss of hearing, Dr. W. I. Glass, of the Department of Health, Timaru, told the symposium. Dr. Glass gave the results of eight years’ research into the hearing of apprentices in these trades. The 117 apprentices in three trades had their hearing tested on 511 occasions over one, two, three, four or five years. The loss was more marked among apprentices in the boilermaking trade. Tests on one apprentice showed a “horrible drop” in hearing to a level that included speech frequencies, Dr. Glass said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 6
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