CEREBRAL PALSY AUTHORITY TO VISIT DOMINION
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 15. Arrangements had been completed for the visit of Dr Earl R. Carlson, the world-famous authority on cerebral palsy, said the president of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society (Sir Charles Norwood) today. It is expected that he will arrive in New Zealand on November 1.
“This question of cerebral palsy, commonly known as spastic paralysis, has exercised the mind of the Crippled Children Society since its inception, and treatment the world over is more or less on the initial stages,” said Sir Charles Norwood. “It may, however, be said that research in the United States is probably more advanced than in any other country. Dr Carlson, himself a spastic paralysis victim who developed into a great physician, is the most encouraging example of what is possible. “It is estimated from returns already known to the society that there are some 500 spastic cases in New Zealand, and probably the records are not entirely complete.” Dr Carlson will be the guest of the Government. He will give services without remuneration and the society is’meeting the cost of travel and accommodation in the meantime.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1947, Page 2
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