SURGERY FOR LEPERS
Successful Work In South India Remarkable successes are being achieved in remedial surgery for leprosy deformities by a Salvation Army surgeon in South India. As a result, patients are coming in ever - increasing numbers. Some come from great distances. Reports to this effect have reached the Rev. M. * Feist, of Auckland, the secretary of the Mission to Lepers (N.Z.), from the Catherine Booth Hospital at Nagercoil at the southern tip of India, where Brigadier (Dr.) Williams and several New Zealanders are expanding their leprosy work with help from the New Zealand Mission to Lepers. Not having space or money enough for a new leprosy block, they are remodelling two men’s wards in the most secluded corner of the compound with the help of a New Zealand Mission to Lepers’ jubilee grant The staff of the hospital have sent their cordial thanks to the Mission to Lepers and also to C.O.R S.O. (N Z.) for a supply of full cream milk powder. They say another New Zealander. Sister Orma Sutton, is coming, and this will mean the resumption of radiography training.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 8
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