CURATIVE BATHS FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 7

CURATIVE BATHS FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN

The Southland Hospital Board is investigating the possibility of installing a bath at the Southland Hospital to provide under-water treatment for crippled children. At the board’s meeting yesterday it was reported that the board had been approached by the Crippled Children Society with the request. A suitable building would have to be added to the massage department, it was stated, and the cost would be fairly heavy, although the society had given an oral undertaking to ar-

r range, if necessary, a large proportion of ' the finance. The secretary (Mr A. M. Williams) reported that he had written to a doctor asking if such under-water treatment would be more effective than the treatment now given in the massage department, also, if the treatment would benefit children crippled in the last infantile paralysis epidemic of 1937. He had also written to hospitals where the baths were in use asking for full information about them. The board decided to await fuller information about the cost of the installing of the baths and the benefits to be derived from them.