ASSISTANCE FOR CRIPPLES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21411, 1 March 1935, Page 14

ASSISTANCE FOR CRIPPLES

—«— FORMATION OF SOCIETY URGED ADDRESS TO ROTARY CONFERENCE (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELZGBAM.) TIMARU, February 28. Declaring that in New Zealand there was no organised effort to assist the economic battle of cripples, Dr. A. Gillies, of the Wellington Rotary Club, in addressing the New Zealand Conference, asserted that such cases constantly came before the attention of members. He emphasised the necessity for the formation of a society for crippled children in the Dominica Cases had been assisted by the Rotary Club, enabling their proper treatment and education and help in other ways, because Rotary had created interest in them, but he was meeting evidence every day that the problem had not beea covered.

Dr. Gillies said that despite the magnificent sunshine in New Zeaiana, there was no solarium treatment available for affections of the bones ana joints, such as bone tuberculosis ano unhealed bone abscesses. He urgeo the necessity for harnessing the wshine, as well as the water of the IWminion. . _,- "We need lo inaugurate in somew a system of centralising hospitalisauon with special apparatus and all. «» orthopaedic treatment embraces, in «« principal cities, with thorough iouw up work."