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BY arrangement with the Medical Research Council, an Otological Research Unit has been established at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, W.C.1. It is to be maintained jointly by the Council and the Hospital, as in the case of the existing Neurological Research Unit. The director is Dr. C. S. Hallpike, a whole-time member of the Council's scientific staff and aural physician to the Hospital. The Medical Research Council, also, has appointed three new committees to advise and assist in promoting a general programme of research work into problems of deafness. They will deal with the following divisions of the subject, (a) Medical and surgical problems of the causation, prevention and treatment of deafness (chairman: Prof. H. Cohen, University of Liverpool). (b) Electro-acoustical problems relating to the design and application of instruments used in the investigation and alleviation of deafness (chairman: Dr. W. G. Radley, Post Office Research Station), (c) Problems relating to the educational treatment of deafness inchildren and adults (chairman: Prof. F. C. Bartlett, University of Cambridge). The membership of the committees includes nominees of Government departments and various bodies concerned with the practical questions which are involved.
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Research into Problems of Hearing and Deafness. Nature 153, 522 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153522d0
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