CHAPEL BECOMES A CLINIC

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 18

CHAPEL BECOMES A CLINIC

| CURE OF RHEUMATISM LONDON, Feb. 20. ) Great. Britain’s first clinic for the treatment of rheumatism and allied diseases will bo opened at Nash’s Regent Square, by the Queen on February 25. Tho clinic has been built at a cost of £40,000 by the Red. Cross Society especially to treat sufferers whose ail moots have not progressed sufficiently to confine them to lied. Four hundred treatments can be given every day, and arrangements have been made to treat patients after the usual business hours so that workers can be treated while they continue at work. Th'i Ministry of Health has estimated that rheumatic diseases cost this country nearlv E2.C00.0C0 annually in sick benefit. Under the provisions of the Insurance Acts no financial grants could be made for preventive treatment, and sufferers had to wait until they could no longer work to become eligible for hospital treatment. To solve this difficulty the Red Cross Society acquired the building known as Nash’s Chapel and rebuilt the interior. The baptismal pool lias been rebuilt, and will contain saline and foam baths, and provision has been made for massage treatment and hot air and vapour baths, Insured patients will receive treatment at a cost of 3s each, or 25s for a course of 10. This will be paid by tlie Ministry'of Health or the insurance companies. Private patients will pay slieditiv higher charges, based on their ability to nav.