DEAFNESS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You were good enough to publish,. some time ago, a corre- spondence dealing with moral conditions affecting the deaf. May • I through your columns make an appeal to their medical advisers ? A short-sighted man may go to his doctor and through him to an optician, and so get a certified instrument to remedy his defect. No such advantages are open to the partially deaf. The electrical aids, admirable in conception and an inestimable boon, are, as far as I know, wholly in the hands of the trade, and customers find their mercies anything but tender. Not only are these instruments carelessly made, supplied with difficulty, and without any guarantees, but their price is prohibitive to poor patients. This class has, unhappily, very greatly increased owing to the war. Surely the medical profession, when unable to cure this most disabling of infirmities, might recognize the mechanical aids in existence and help their patients to-get them, properly made, and at a reasonable price.—I am, Sir, &a., ONE or ram Vic-rims.
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