INJURED AIRMAN.

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 11

INJURED AIRMAN.

SPECIAL TREATMENT AT HOME (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 4. Mr. 'Lewis P. P. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Taylor, of Wellington, is still under the care of Sir H. D. Gillies, the eminent plastic surgeon. Skin grafting has been moro than onco successfully performed, and the patient was able to leave hospital recently to spend a few quiet weeks with his mother, at Weybridge. He has returned to the Scottish Nursing Hospital, West Hampstead, to undergo facial skin grafting; Progress cannot be rapid, for the medical men can do only a certain amount at a time, Mr. Taylor having suffered so severely as the result, of the. aeroplane accident atr Johnsonville some . time ago. Mrs. Taylor is hoping that it will be possible for her to return with her son and the nurse who came with them towards the end of the year. Meanwhile, the nurse is on the staff of the hospital, where she is gaining very valuable experience. She has been on duty at all Dr. Gillies 's delicate operations on his New Zealand patient. ■ Mr. Taylor has been able to read most of 'the time, and he is still interested in studying all that is latest in aviation progress. He; hopes that it will be possible for him to take a short technical course before ho goes home.