Hearing Tests
A Bekesy audiometer, the first to be brought into New Zealand, has been installed at the applied psychology department of Canterbury University. Worth £l2OO, the equipment can be applied to a wider range of hearing tests than was possible by the older. manually - operated method, and will shorten the time for individual tests of hearing. It will be extensively used
in a department project aimed at screening industrial workers from noise levels damaging to their hearing Use of the equipment over a period of two years or more will show the pattern of increasing deafness in some industrial workers, and over a shorter period it will detect individuals who are more susceptible to deafness and need to be protected against high noise levels in their work.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 17
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128Hearing Tests Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 17
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