THE HARD OF HEARING
WORK OF THE LEAGUE [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLIX GTO X, Wednesday The founder of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing and honorary organiser of the present campaign lor better hearing, Mrs. G. A. Hurd-Wood, in a lecture on lip-reading to-night, stated that the scope of important. work by the league had been greatly widened by t.he war. One result of the last war was that the, British Government granted pensions or allowances to 34,000 deafened soldiers. Many more thousands of soldiers and many nurses were rendered permanently hard of hearing. Many New Zealand soldiers suffered similarly.
It was highly probable that the proportion of deafened and hard of hearing would be greatly increased in the present war as a result of the tremendously increased blasting power of modern bombs and shells and as a result of the abnormal living conditions of soldiers, nurses and large numbers of the civilian population. All cases would have the best possible attention front the league, which would do its utmost to assist in the satisfactory rehabilitation of men and nurses who returned deafened or hard of hearing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 11
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