Doctor's Views On Palsy Treatment
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WELLINGTON; - September 1. Dr. E. R. Carlson's. report ! 011 the problem of cerebral phlsy within New Zealand,. eame 'bnfore.- the annuai gonf erenc'e of the New Zeiil'aiitl Bfippled ; Children iSociety today^ aiid will bc ebnsiddfed iri ino'fe detail tdmorrow. Moving the adoption, T)L J. L. Will said he was not in agreement with. the proposals for the Rotorua Hospital pu't forward earlier iii the conference by the Alinister of Health, as he considered it was aii attePip't to star't in the middl-e of the prdgramme. Feathres of. the Carison report he wislied to stress, were the need for home- treatment as soon as a medicai. diagnosif was made, a nursery day scho'ol at tlie kin'detgai'teii stage, diagnostie aiid evalnation eentres _to detferiniid fvhat a ■, child eould be with' traiiiing, residential hospital sehools'. .for training; education and treatment, then training- cenfcres to make thCm ifiduS'trially; ' indepehdent. His visit overseas;' hhd satisfied him that money spent, even spent lavishiy, wotlld bring a worthwhile, return. Mr. V. S.; Jacobs ^Dunedin;) said there were . 605 . 'cerebral. p>aby t'ases ih New Zealand; _;He, cpnsidered / eiforts should not- be eon'fihed fo a mpJjpitaL .aii. Rotorua, which;. he uhcT^rstoad;- would cater for 30 patients. -
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 September 1948, Page 8
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