NEW HOSPITAL PLANNED
CARE OF RETARDED CHILDREN ANCIENT CHURCH ORDER’S PROJECT A non-denominational hospital at Middleton for retarded children is to be founded by a Church order which for 450 years has specialised in the care of such children. Announcing yesterday that four of the Hospitallers of St. John of God would arrive in Christchurch next month, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. E. M. Joyce) said yesterday that their mission was to found a hospital for their work at Marylands, Middleton. Members of the order have gained a world reputation f t their care and training of sr.?. ■. cs and other retarded children Th-' ‘ctpitallers have been granted substantial State assistance for their work in Australia. Soon after they opened their first institution in Melbourne, which was filled Immediately, they opened another hospital in the same city. Bishop Joyce said that the Hospitallers insisted that any children committed to their care be under the age of seven. As long as they began their treatment while the child was capable of receiving instruction the Hospitallers could teach them to perform a personal daily routine and could train them in an occupation to enable them to make some contribution to the economy of their community, he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27613, 21 March 1955, Page 10
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