A PATHETIC STORY
53 YEARS IN HOSPITAL INVALID'S FIRST VISIT TO OWN HOME SYDNEY. July 11. One of the most pathetic human stories ever unfolded in Sydney was disposed to-day. when a woman went home for the first time in her life, though she is now 55 years of age. She was put in the old Hyde Park Hospital when a baby, atid stayed there for .10 years; Uter she went to Newmgion State Hospital, and remained there for 43 years, during f\w whole of which time she was never outside its walls. Her two sisters, who live in great poverty at 14 Franklin street. The Glebe,* decided to bring her home, and have anpealod foi funds to buy her an invalid's chair, so that she may see the'oity for the first time. The woman lias 'been paralysed since babyhood owing to her mother having sustained a great fright hy a frog jumping into her lap.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 2
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