INFANTILE PARALYSIS
SISTER KENNY'S TREATMENT MSPITAL AT SILVERSTREAM (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 28. The hospital for neuromuscular diseases at Silverstream founded byMr and Mrs T. A. Duncan, of Hunterville, was opened on Saturday afternoon by the Governor-General, who was accompanied by Lady Newall. The Hon. Adam Hamilton presided. The purpose of the hospital is particularly to give Sister Kenny's treatment for infantile paralysis, and it is the first of its kind in New Zealand. The hospital, which was formerly a residence, is a one-story wooden building of 14 or 15 rooms which., when fully equipped and staffed, will accommodate 20 or 25 patients. At present there is one nurse. Sister G. A. Dryden, who studied Sister Kenny's work in America for 15 months, and there is already one patient..
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Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 2
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128INFANTILE PARALYSIS Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 2
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