INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2769, 12 May 1916, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

A SPECIAL MASSAGE EXPERT.

Ihe Pubhc Health Department has obtained the: services of a specially qualified masseuse and assistant from Australia to Sine instruction in methods of massage cases ° eiltment Of infantile paralysis

dnv tk t V) ' RuGsell stilted yesterU">J that the lady was a Russian nurse mass . 6l,s ?> and that information had lieon receiwd from a high medical anthoritj in Melbourne, as to the'succor, of her special treatment of these cases. This iulormacion wa« brought to his notice bv i 8 aud tll ° Hinistetl at- once approved ot the lady being brought to £ew Zealand. She arrived this week. Tho •wparttaoiit proposed to. enter upon a !!',S pal l u i ? gain - st hc infantile paralysis outbieak throughout the country. Since Her arrival the nurse had given a demon6tration ot her work before Dr. Valentine, and he was quit© satisfied as to tho value oi her methods. Steps are to be taken to anango tor demonstrations in important centres throughout f .New. Zealand, beginning in Wellington,'to which members of tne medical profession, masseurs of etandiug,;and also physical culturists in the service ot tho Education. Department, would be invited. Other'centres would receive the benefit .of her instruction in uue course. As the nurse could stay only six weeks in New Zealand it would bo impossible to visit every, town, and. for inis reason it would be necessary, to ask those interested-in the smaller neighbour'^n,r centres to attend the demonstrations in. the nearest large town, in their dis.trict. . ,