THE WILSON HOME

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 3

THE WILSON HOME

-Prcss Association.)

Paralysed Children To Receive Treatment

(By Telsgraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. With tho transfer deed signed by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Rev. W. C. Wood, it is hoped to make the Wilson Home for Cripple I Children available for 25 patients within four weeks. Plans for equipping and staffing the home were discussed by the committee of management, and; its decisions will be recommended for adoption by the board. The signing of the trust deed marked the official transfer of the home to the Hospital Board, and Mr. Wood, thanking the donors, Mr. ' and Mrs. W. R. Wilson, for their magnificent gift, said it seemed like a dispensation of providence that the facilities should be available at the present time when there ... was a large number of sufferers from bhe ravages of infantile paralysis demanding treatment. In less favourable circumstances it would have been necessary for the board to have provided accommodation, which was not at present available in the hospital. The proposals to be submittei by the committee to the board provide for the appointment of matron, three trained nurses, six hospital aides, five masseurs and two masseur aides, together with a domestic staff. Their work will be carried out under the supervision of honorary orthopaedic surgeons attached to the hospital. Tentative plans have also been prepared for the eTection of a large bath houso as an essential part of the curative scheme, and the board will be asked to approve the erection of a building constructed in brick and rough cast at a probable cost of between £6000 and £7000. Individual and communal baths will be provided, and it is anticipated that the treatment of the children will extend for at least two years. "As soon as the staff is available we intend to open the home, and any structural alterations required can be undertaken subsequently. " Mr. Wood explained. "Most of the children wiho will be admitted are at preflent in the main hospital receiving treatment under less favourable conditions than will bo available at the Wilson Home. It is hoped to arrange the official opening within four weeks."