Causes of Severe Deafness in Schoolchildren in Northumberland and Durham

Abstract

In 1948 Lande recognized that deafness as well as choreo-athetosis and mental deficiency could follow severe neonatal jaundice. Crabtree and Gerrard (1950) reported that the degree of deafness bore no constant relationship to the extent of the extrapyramidal lesion nor to the level of intelligence and could be the only sequel to neonatal jaundice. Various authors (