MEDICAL BATH
TREATING CRIPPLES WILSON HOME INSTALLATION Use was made for the first time yesterday of the hydro-therapy bath constructed in the Wilson Home for Crippled Children. It is tho largest bath of its type in any institution in New Zealand, and will be used to tench patients in the home to swim, as well as to encourage them to mako freer movement of their limbs.
Constructed in concrete, and raised from the floor in a special room at the home, the bath measures ,20ft. by 7ft. It is 4ft. 6in. deep, sloping upward to 3, depth of 2ft 6in. Electrically-heated water flows through the bath continuously, being regulated to a temperature of 90 degrees. The bath is finished in cream enamel. Daily use will be made of the bath, which wns a source of much attraction among all but eight of the 35 children in the home yesterday. The patients making use of it were chiefly sufferers from paralysis in different forms. To avoid any mishap, an attendant will always enter the water with the children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 18
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177MEDICAL BATH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 18
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