WIRELESS & DEAFNESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1923, Page 1

WIRELESS & DEAFNESS.

A. (ahie message appearing in our columns a few days ago stated that an invention, enabling the deaf to hear wireless broadcasted programmes, was exhibited before the Poyal Society of .dcdioiiio. and it may he of interest to reprint the following from the “Bailv Mail” of .March 29th ; NOT A CERE. A paragraph was published in The Daily Mail a few days ago toiling tin* story oI a deal" man who was Mirp.i- -d and delighted by finding that he. ton'd hear wireless. It appears tint i. •: ny people reading this story have jumped to the conclusion that wireless is a cure for deafness, a hasty assumption for veliieh there is in foundation whatever. Ninny people who are partly deaf can hear better 1/ tel,mil mo than in ordinary conversation, hut there is no reason for believing that the use of the telephone is a cure for deafness, sitin'lai ly with wireless. In some kinds of deafness the patient, who puts a wireless apparatus to his ear finds that he can hear it’much more distinctly than he is accustomed to hear, hut there is a danger in the indi,-.criminating u-e of wireless for people whose hearing is d'feeti ve. .Mdieal men have found during the last few weeks that in many eases where deafness is accompanied by noises in the head, the noises have become aggravated, in some eases to a distressing degree, owing to the use of wire-

less. Wireless is not a <ure for deafness. Li sonic cases it does harm, in ether cases it does no harm, but there is no lid-nee that it dives any good, and it. should not be used with a view to i inmoving the hearing except by medical ulvice.