KENNY METHODS
TREATMENT OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. REPORT TO N.S.W. HEALTH MINISTRY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, July 4. A report has been received by the State Ministry of Health from the medical superintendent of the Newcastle Public Hospital, Dr K. Starr, on Sister Kenny’s methods for the treatment of infantile paralysis. Dr Starr says that Sister Kenny’s methods cannot replace the orthodox practices, but their most favourable principles, he contends should be incoporated in units for the treatment of infantile paralysis.
He points out that Sister Kenny has made valuable contributions, first to the knowledge relating to the causes of stiffness in paralysed muscles; secondly to its prevention and regarding the results so commonly seen of improper splinting: and thirdly to the equipment of those units —orthodox and unorthodox —which are dealing with infantile paralysis. On the other hand, Sister Kenny had made no fresh contribution to the treatment of the disease as it affected the spinal cord.
Dr Starr recommends that any Kenny clinic should function as a separate unit, as her status as a consultant has had a most adverse reaction on the consultant medical staff of the public hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 5
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192KENNY METHODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 5
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