DEFECTIVE HEARING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 7

DEFECTIVE HEARING

Referring to a previous letter on defective hearing, "Fellow-sufferer" submits that ''if a return were taken of all known cases of deafness of young adults between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, the percentage figure would show an alarnimg increase, as any medical ear-specialist will verify, and a still greater increase from twenty-one onwards. This does not take into consideration the cases of failing hearing naturally due to age, but points to a very real problem that calls for immediate and urgent investigation." The correspondent urges that there should be a fund for medical research. "As you have pointed out, the systematic medical examination ,of school children, and the consequent correction of nasaland throat infection at an early stage, should do much to help, but. there is still a wide field for research into further prevention, curative treatment, and mechanical acoustic aids." The correspondent ■ suggests also the formation of a society of persons suffering from deafness to inaugurate a research fund and to serve the useful and humanitarian purpose of bringing together sufferers socially.