DUNEDIN AS CENTRE FOR TREATMENT OF SPASTIC PARALYSIS
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, This Day. After inspecting the facilities m Dunedin at the public hospital and the Otago Medical School, Dr Earl R. Carlson, world authority on spastic paralysis, believes this city offers the best place in New Zealand for the establishment of a diagnostic and teaching centre. The presence of expert specialists, who could help to instruct teachers from day and boarding schools for spastic paralytics, made Dunedin the logical centre fox' instructional purposes, he said before he left fox' Christchurch this morning.
All phases of medicine were involved in the treatment of children suffering from cerebral palsy and the facilities for the well-rounded programme necessary both fox’ diagnosis and treatment were available in punedin. The equipment at the phsysiotherapy department of the public hospital was among the best he had seen anywhere.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1948, Page 4
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