SUNSHINE UNHARNESSED

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 14

SUNSHINE UNHARNESSED

COUNTRY WITHOUT SOLARIUM DOCTOR'S PLEA FOR YOUNG CRIPPLES [Per okited Press Association.] TIMARU, February 28. Declaring that in New Zealand there was no organised effort to assist the economic battle of cripples, Dr Gillies, of the Wellington Club, addressing the New Zealand Rotary Conference, asserted that cases constantly came before the attention of members and emphasised the necessity for the formation of a society for crippled children in the dominion. He said, that cases had been asssisted by Rotary, enabling proper treatment and education and help in other ways, because Rotary had created interest in them. He was meeting evidence every day that the problem had not been covered. Dr Gillies said that, despite the magnificent sunshine in New Zealand, solarium treatment was not available for affections ,of bones and joints, such as bone tuberculosis and unhealed bone abscesses. He urged the necessity of harnessing the sunshine as well as the water of the dominion. “ We need to inaugurate in some way a system of ’centralising hospitalisation, with special apparatus and all that orthopaedic treatment embraces, in the principal cities, with thorough follow-up work,” he said.