CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 12

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

PREPARATIONS FOR HOME. TRANSFER DEED SIGNED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 19. Willi the transier deed signed by the chairman of the Auckland Hci-pitnl Board, Rev. W. C. Wood, it is hoped to make the Wilson Home for crippled children available for 25 patients within tour weeks. Plans for equipping and staffing the home were discussed by the committee of management and its decisions will be recommended for adoption by the board. • The signing of the trust deed marked the official transfer of the home to the hospital board, a.nd Mr Wood, in thanking the donors, Mr and Mrs W. It. Wilson, for their magnificent gift, said it seemed like a dispensation of Providence that facilities should be available at the present time when there was a large number of sufferers from the ravages of infantile paralysis demanding treatment. In less favourable circumstances it would have been necessary for the hoard to have provided accommodation which was not at present available in the hospital. Proposals to he submitted by the committee to the board provide for the appointment of a matron, three trained nurses, six hospital aides, five masseurs, and two masseur aides, together with a domestic staff. Their work will bg carried out under the supervision of honorary orthopaedic surgeons attached to the hospital. Tentative pla.ns have also been prepared tor the erection of a large bath house as an essential part of _ the curative scheme, and the board will lie asked to approve the erection of a building constructed in brick and roughcast at a probable cost of between £OOOO and £7OOO. Individual a.nd communal baths will be provided, and it is anticipated that the treatment of children will extend for at least two years. “As soon as the staff is available we intend to open tho liomc and any structural alterations required b" undertaken subsequently,” Mr Wood explained. “Most of the children who will be admitted are at present in the main hospital receiving treatment under less favourable eondit'o'is than will bo availed at the 1\ ‘.lson Home. It. is honed to arrange the official opening within four weeks.”