N.Z. GIRL PARALYSIS VICTIM IN LONDON
♦ — - — Received Tliursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Medical men in London, ineluding Sir Arthur Porritt, are taking an interest in the ease of a New Zealand girl, Miss June Opie, of Mokau, who is a patient in St. Mary's Hospital suffering from infantile paralysis. Miss Opie, who' was coming to London to • take a course in voiee production, contraeted the disease while at sea, and on her removal to hospital she was placed in m iron lung. This treatment has oroved so successful that the use of the lung has now been discontinued, but i1 is likely to be some time before Misi Opie will be well enougli to be moved from hospital. E
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1947, Page 5
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120N.Z. GIRL PARALYSIS VICTIM IN LONDON Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1947, Page 5
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