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Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 2

j Dr Valintino forwarded to the WellingI ton Hospital Board a report submitted to '■the- Public Health Department, by Mi.-a j JJevilaqua, in the cour?e of which, srw ■ said:—"l am unable to do anything to I benefit tho infantile paralysis patients at '■ present in or those who are, 01 should be, ! attending as out-patients n.t tho Public i Hospital in Wellington. I supplied tlw ! Hospital Board with, tho names of two j ladies, cither of whom if appointed would ! have given the patients cvyry chance to '; benefit under tho system that 1 was ! broutrht to the Dominion to teach. The. I Wellington. Hospital is tho only hospital \ that [ have visited where this work is not • being canned out." In a covering letter ! Dr Valintine said he could not too strongly • call attention to the report and his great i disapjxnntment with the results at the h0.3I pital. As far as ho could gather. Miss ] Uevilaqua's results in other institutions ; had been most satisfactory. Mrs Wilford i (a mtmbor of tho hoard) .said 28 cases of i infantile {.waiveis liad been treated at this i hospital, and 20 had l been completely cured, while eight were still under treatment. A complete cure could not be expected in every case, but tho percentage warranted the board in saying that the masseuse thoroughly understood her busi- : ness. An injustice would be done- by tho appointment of other women, ne> it would reflect on tho competency of those nowengaged on the work. The board should act fairly by the women who had done tho work, and whom it Mas proposed to supersede by outsiders. The medical superintendent said that massage did infantile paralysis harm. A new treatment liad | been evolved, and he was sorry that the I two schools wore in conflict. Masseurs would #probably learn the. systfin more j quickly than others, as they were eonI versant with tlie muscles of tho human j body. Tho Chairman said that the two nurses under training had left the institn- | tion, as. there was a. better practice out- | side. The whole question, was referred to the Hospital Committee, with power/ to act. The Minister of Lands for Xcvr South Wales skates that 250 farms on the Murrumbidgeo irrigation area have been earmarked for returned soldiers, and that this number will be extended to 1,000 or 1,500 as the Mothers! Think of the. economy of using "NAZOL" —the best cough' and cold remedy for young ami old. Eigliteenpenca buvs sixtv full doses.— [Advt.l " " .