OPERATION IN SWEDEN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 12

OPERATION IN SWEDEN

Warren Cuttance ■ Returns Warren Cuttance, the 18-yeab old Dallington boy whom Canterbury people sent to Stockholm to be operated on for a brain tumour six Weeks ago, flew back to the city by Viscount yesterday afternoon from Auckland after an almost non-stop flight from London. He looked tired as he walked down the aircraft gangway, steadying himself on the handrail and helped a little by his stepfather, Mr R. Stokes. At the foot of the aircraft steps to greet Warren and his mother, who flew with him to Stockholm, was a group of relatives and friends. Waiting with them was the

Mayor (Mr G. Manning) and tht assistant town clerk (Mr M. B. Hayes) who wm treasurer of the fund that sent Warren oversea!. Parked on the tarmac apron only a tew feet away wm Mr Hayes’s car ready to take Warren home. Mrs Stokes said later: “I am absolutely thrilled with the rts ilt of the operation. We were told 1 before leaving Stockholm that Warren Will be a normal boy again in a few months. Mother’s Thanks “I have to thank God and the people who sent Warren. I feel that today I must be the happiett mother in the whole world." Mrs Stokes said Warren had shown an improvement since leaving Stockholm. There he had been troubled by double-vision, but in London he was seeing much better.

“The people in Sweden were wonderful to me. They eve# arranged a flat for me until the middle of July,*’ said Mrs Stokes She and Warren flew almost non-stop from London to Sydney, sleeping “for an hour or so” on the plane. On Thursday night they stayed in an Auckland hotel before flying on to Christchurch, but were awake early yesterday. Warren Cuttance was operated on by a leading Swedish brain surgeon. Professor Herbert Olivecrona, in Stockholm’s Serafimer Hospital on Monday, May 25—the day after he arrived. Christchurch people, and others from Canterbury and the West Coast, subscribed £2500 to send Warren to Sweden.