N.Z. Girl’s Progress In English Hospital

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 6

N.Z. Girl’s Progress In English Hospital

A Lower Hutt mother (Mrs R. G. Brown) paid a handsome tribute to the work of the New Zealand Crippled Cbttdrm Society when mentioning the progroes being made by her nine-year-old daughter, Margaret

Margaret Brown was admitted on October 22 to the famous orthopaedic hospital at Oswestry, Shropshire, tor an operation to correct a curvature of the spine. “My husband and I feel we owe so much to the Crippled Children Society,” Mrs Brown said. “Margaret had a major operation lasting three hours on November fl. After two weeks she was put kt a plastic jacket, but wee Mt allowed to sit up or walk “Some time within the next few weeks Margaret will undergo a second, but not so serious an operation, to prevent further curvature appearing. During this operation bone fusion is done tirintf catf bonft “After a further two months, she wto be allowed to sit up and then walk. She wflt travel home in the plastic jacket which, we nope, wffi be removed at the end of the year.** Oswestry, she described as “very much more than a hospital.” Margaret Brown has settled down very well there. "She enjoys the friendship of children from many different places,** Mrs Brown said. "There are U girls aged from five to 10 to her ward and they have normal schooling from IN uc. to SJO p.m. Before Christmas they bad a school brook up party when the ehildrsn entertained the parents with a 4 tNMd OQ Iht CMKtriMI supCM/inc ww amervm mgredjanta tor the Christmas “Margaret represented New Zeetond, supplying the butter,’* she said. A normally beaMhy child.

(From the London CoretesnOsat of -The Press")

Margaret, who was allowed to leave hoepttai for a week over CbrMmaa to stay in th*. house where Mrs Brown ia Jiving—and hare the ogre of a former nurse at lhe hoopttal was available hag gained weight end is notioaabty longer in the body aa a nmdt of the operation The plane of mother and daughter are dependent now upon the result of lhe aaeond operation and on bow soon it will take piece. But Mrs Brown hopes to return to New Zealand wtth Margaret ia the langttana on June M. In the misnttoii Mrs T'njwu’S acttvttieg are retorietod to daily vtarttog at the hospital. "Wbm the weather to suit•bite" At “MftDli trt pMinttttd tt puA At btfe sptcteUy flMdt tor At pur* poos round the grounds at the hospital during vWttag hours at the wo to sad,’’ Mr* Brown’s hueband and 11-yaar-old son are not in England,