PARAPLEGICS IN N.Z.
Survey By Health Department
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 20. In New Zealand, the most common type of paraplegia is that caused by injury. This was one of the conclusions emerging from a survey of paraplegics carried out recently by the Health Department. Paraplegia is paralysis of the lower limbs and part or whole of the trunk. Of a total of 110 paraplegics in New Zealand. 72 were the result of injury and 80 were males. Most fell within the age group of 20 to 39 years. Of the 110, 78 lived in the North Island and 32 in the South Island and almost as many were cared for at home, 54, as were cared for in hospital or institutions, 56. The rehabilitation needs, as assessed by notifying doctors, divided the cases into 82 who would benefit from a stay at a rehabilitation centre. 20 who had already been rehabilitated and eight for whom little further could be done.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 7
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