INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
SKILLED NURSE SECURED. By Telegraph—Government Memo. Wellington, May 11. An important step has been taken by the Public Health Department in connection with the treatment of children suffering from infantile paralysis. The services of a nurse, who is skilled in the special forms of massage used in the treatment of this affliction, have been secured, and the lady arrived in Wellington yesterday. ' She will give demonstrations in various centres during the next few weeks. _ The Minister for IPublic Health, referring -to this matter this evening, said that the nurse was a Russian lady. She had received special training in England, according to the latest methods of treating infantile paralysis, and had gone to Melbourne uiider arrangement with a prominent medical man there, in order to bring the treatment into use in Australia. Mr. Russell had approved of her engagement for a six weeks' stay in New Zealand. <§he will give her first demonstration in Wellington, and proceed later to other centres. Invitations to see her work would be extended to medical men, masseurs of standing, nurses, and physical culturists of the Education Department.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1916, Page 6
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185INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1916, Page 6
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