EFFECTS OF KING’S ILLNESS: SLOW IMPROVEMENT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 5

EFFECTS OF KING’S ILLNESS: SLOW IMPROVEMENT

(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter —Copyright.) (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. The New York Times, in a dispatch from London dealing with the King’s illness, reported “on the best authority that the New York Times bureau in London has been able to consult —and it is pretty high”—there has been what is called “a non-committal diagnosis,” meaning. without assurance, that King George has “intermittent claudi beat ion.”

This is a form of partial obstruction causing lameness connected with the hardening of the arteries and is often susceptible of satisfactory relief and even virtual cure, given the proper rest and treatment over a period of about six months.

“At the same time it is an ailment that could take a serious turn in which an operation would be necessary. Should gangrene set in—and that is always a possibility in the early stages of treatment —amputation would be necessary.

What is important for the time being is that there is every reason to believe the cautious and responsible bulletins of the King’s physicians. They make it clear that the King is improving slowly and that there is no sign whatever of gangrene.