Cartoons for Child Patients
THE psychological effect of happy surA rounclings, is truly amazing. Welfare workers have realised this for, years, and colours and illustrations in nurseries nowadays play an important part in the development of the child m Now the idea has been carried a logical step forward, and in America the ceilings of .'hospital operating-thea,tres are decorated with Mickey Mouse cartoons and kindred subjects with an appeal to the child mind, to overcome the fear of operations.' . This & satisfactory from every point of view. The parents are saved the unpleasant duty, until now regarded as imperative, of telling the child untruths, while the surgeon js robbed of the even more unhappy, task of first overcoming the little patient s fear before he 6an get on with his job. . - Now there is every reason to hope that children- will face operations with smiles on their littlo faces, and be ushered-into oblivion by the anaethetist with thoughts of Mickey Mouse and Pop-eye the Sailor running through their 'minds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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168Cartoons for Child Patients New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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