Show preserving the hearing As we think of the great number ot of hard ot of hearing individuals who are now wearing satisfactory hearing aids we are apt to think that we have reached tho the point where all the hard 0 of hearing accept this condition and are willing to wear hear ing aids but this Is not so dr C C bunch northwestern university school of speech in an article on the conservation or preservation er of hearing in the journal of the american medical association says recently an employer was asked what his reaction would be it someone asked permission to test the hearing of his employees he replied that he preferred to let sleeping dogs ile he A locomotive engineer was asked if ho he would invite some members of hla his union to come to the laboratory for hearing tests no charge was to be made and the results were to be confidential none appeared for or the tests 11 why do employers and employees avoid these tests testa employers are a afraid that additional legal regulations and questions of compensation will arise employees i are afraid that it will bring about 1 loss ss of employment it la Is likely that that most of us whether we were employers or employees would do just as this employer and employee did however just a little thought should convince all of us that as most cases of hard of hearing are not in an advanced condition but still have considerable hearing ability the common sense thing to do would be to find out how much hearing was lost what was causing the loss what could be done to prevent further loss and what could be done in the way of treatment or a hearing aid to bring the hearing up to or nearly up to normal dr bunch recounts the measures being used in factories tunnels airplanes and other places and occupations pat ions to preserve pie serve not restore the hearing bearing one of the simple methods used to preserve hearing by shu shutting tung out noise is use of absorbent cotton car plugs covered with vasel vaseline lne |