VETERAN PRELATE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 10

VETERAN PRELATE

Archbishop Redwood in Hospital A SERIOUS OPERATION His Grace Archbishop Francis Redwood is seriously ill at the Lewisham Hospital, Wellington South, where, yesterday morning it was necessary to perform a major operation. His right leg was amputated above the knee, following indications of gangrene, which had troubled him for some weeks.

Now in his ninety-sixth year, the veteran prelate has not enjoyed very good health during the past year or so. During a visit to Sydney in 1933, he was operated upon for an affection of one of his ears. He then returned to Wellington, but as the winter was coming on he wits advised to seek a warmer climate, and so spent the greater part of last winter in Queensland, returning in apparently robust health. He declared then that it was his intention to attend the Eucharistic Congress at Melbourne last month, but owing to weaknesses developing, he had to abandon that trip, and was an inmate of the Lewisham Hospital for some time. His right leg has, however, been troubling him for the last two or three months, and it was only as a last hope that his medical advisers recommended amputation.

The operation was performed yesterday at 10 a.m., and the patient was free of the anaesthetic before 11 a.m. It was reported last evening that His Grace was as well as could be expected in the circumstances.