REMARKABLE OPERATION

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5197, 31 October 1927, Page 2

REMARKABLE OPERATION

INFANTILE PARALYSIS VICTIM. MATAMATA GIRL’S RECOVERY. To have, the use of a limb again after 12 years’ disablement is the experience of a Matamata girl, Miss Moina. Mclntyre-, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Mclntyre.

Twelve years ago, as a child o£four years of age, this unfortunate girl was stricken with infantile paralysis, and until,l a few months ago was linable to use one leg, fhougli she received every attention that could be provided at the time. However, Dr, Wallis, the orthopaedic surgeon at the Waikato Hospital, operated upon her, transferring the muscles from the back of the leg to the front. The girl had been in the hospital for some twenty months, and was operated upon four months ago. She can now walk for th& first time in 12 years without stick or crutches. Though she has not fully recovered, Dr. Wallis is well satisfied with the results of the operation and the way the muscles are knitting together and forming new growth. z Needless to say, the) parents and the girl herself rejoice in the recovery, and every reader of this report will doubtless rejoice with them in this triumph of surgical skill. —Matamata. Record.