INFANTILE PARALYSIS.
SISTER KENNY’S METHODS.
SOME FAVOURABLE PRINCIPLES
(United Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, July 4.
A report has been received by the State Minister for Health (Mr H. . EitzSimmons) from the medical superintendent of the Newcastle Public xxospital (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 incorporated in units for the treatment of infantile paralysis.
He states that Sister Kenny has made valuable contributions, first to the knowledge relating to the causes of stiffness in paralysed muscles, second, of its prevention and regarding the results so commonly seen of improper splinting, and third, to the equipment of those units, orthodox and unorthodox, which are dealing with infantile paralysis; but Sister Kenny has made no fresh contribution to the treatment of the disease as it affected tlio spinal cord. Dr. Starr recommends that, any Kenny clinic should function as a separate unit as her status as a consultant had a most adverse reaction on the consultant medical staff of the public hospital.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 5
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