Paralysed Woman To Have Own Home
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 17.
After 10 years in hospital, an Auckland woman paralysed with poliomyelitis will go home tomorrow morning to a house designed for her.
She is Mrs N. A. Northcott, formerly of Whakatane, who has spent most of her time since 1937 in the Auckland Hospital. She spends only two hours a day out of her iron lung. The hospital authorities feel that she can live at home, provided she has the necessary facilities. A house has been built at Mangere by the State Advances Corporation, to hold the equipment she will need.
The hospital board will lend her a respirator, a batteryoperated wheelchair and an ordinary wheelchair. A spare respirator at the hospital will be available for emergency use.
Mrs Northcott will be placed in the care of a general practitioner and will have home aid assistance and district nursing supervision through the hospital board. A telephone has been installed and, at first, a home aid will be in attendance nine hours a day. She is looking forward to her new life with her husband and her daughter, Suzanne, who was born the year Mrs Northcott became ill.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31530, 18 November 1967, Page 40
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