INFANTILE PARALYSIS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22930, 7 January 1938, Page 9

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

THE KENNY TREATMENT REPORTS AT VARIANCE (Received January 7, 12.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 6 Sister Kenny said to-day that the report of the Queensland Commission on her treatment of infantile paralysis contained mis-statements awl misrepresentations. Sho claimed that opportunities for testing her work in the best circumstances had been ignored.

Owing to obstacles being placed in her way in Victoria she was leaving this State and would return to England'.

The New South Wales Minister of Health, Mr. Fitzsimons, stated that the Queensland report seemed at variance with the report of the Medical Committee which had investigated cases treated in Sydney. A later message said that fin spite of the rejection of her methods in Queensland, Sister Kenny will remain in Melbourne to conduct the clinic for the treatment of infantile paralysis under Government auspices at Hampton. Neither the British Medical Association nor any other organisation in Victoria has placed any obstacle in her way.

The Minister of Health for Victoria, Sir John Harris, has received a letter irons Dr. F. H. Mills, of London, supsporting tho Kenny treatment ai?d declaring it to be a vast improvement on the orthodox system.

Dr. Mills adds that her work is under the observation of celebrated London physicians and surgeons, who agree that tho method is entirely new. Their report on the system will be available in six weeks' time.

A message from Brisbane says the Queensland Minister of Health, Mr. E. M. Hanlon, referring to the adverse medical report on the Kenny treatment said the Government was satisfied that the money spent on the Kenny clinics had been well spent.