CEREBRAL PALSY
Rehabilitation Progress Progress shown by persons from Templeton Hospital being rehabilitated at the Adult Cerebral Palsy Society’s Independence House, Bristol Street bad been very pleasing, said the secretary of the society (Mrs C. G. Crawford). . Since the hostel had been opened on October 8, six boys had been living permanently at the centre for six months and several others had been treated. The Christchurch Rotary Club had recently given a walking machine to assist very handicapped persons at the centre in sitting.positions and in bathing particularly, said Mrs Crawford. The hostel, which has been set up by the Adult Cerebral Palsy Society, the Health Department and the Disabled Servicemen’s Re - establishment League, is the first in New Zealand designed to gradually rehabilitate cerebral palsy sufferers to full life in the community.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 11
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