MR CHURCHILL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 61, 21 December 1943, Page 3

MR CHURCHILL.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.

LONG’ CONVALESCENCE EXPECTED.

(Rec. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. A bulletin about Mr Churchill’s hcallli issued at 3.20 p.m. from No. 10 Downing Street, states: “His temperature remains normal. The Prime Minister is making satisfactory progress.”—British Official Wireless. Although Mr Churchill’s progress toward recovery is most heartening, his colleagues in the Government are anxious that he should take the longest possible convalescence. It is likely that in these circumstances he may travel to another country in the near future, where the climate might be helpful and more bracing,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.”

“Everything, of course, depends on Mr Churchill’s personal inclinations after the doctors have given their verdict.”

A medical authority, commenting on the latest bulletin, said: “It is very satisfactory. Were thqfe any cause for anxiety over the pulse irregularity it would presumably have been mentioned. Pneumonia in a man of Mr Churchill’s age is bound to cause considerable anxiety. Until it is completely cleared away there is a potential danger all the time.” A new name appeared among the signatories of the latest bulletin. It was that of Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Scadding, aged 36, one of Britain’s foremost authorities on diseases of the chest and lungs. He is attached to the Middle East forces.

\ “Yesterday’s bulletin,” says the Press Association’s medical adviser, “indicates that the crisis of Mr Churchill’s pneumonia is clearing up. The irregularity of the pulse, however, seems to indicate that the illness has thrown some strain on his heart. On the whole, Mr Churchill must still be regarded as seriously ill.” The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, says: “The one touch needed to make the coming holidays the most cheerful of the war was news of Mr Churchill’s improving health. It hals come in the latest bulletin. The British and Allied peoples are thankful and relieved. Mr Churchill is not out of the wood yet, but medical opinion regards his progress so far as excellent, and ns promising rapid recovery.

“We all ask Mr Churchill now to restrain his appetite for work and not to ho too hasty in resuming his giant, burdens. His hardest task may he to come.”