§ Mr. G. Thomasasked the Minister of Education the number of education authorities in Wales who provide gramophone audiometer tests for the primary school children; and whether he has made any recommendations in this regard.
§ Mr. TomlinsonI understand that the only gramophone audiometer used by a Welsh local education authority was damaged during the war. In 1938 the Board of Education endorsed the recommendation of an expert Committee that these instruments should be used for routine group testing. Gramophone audiometers conforming in design and performance with recommendations recently made by the Medical Research Council are now available and I am glad to approve for grant the purchase of suitable instruments by local education authorities.