INJURED NEW ZEALANDER

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 14

INJURED NEW ZEALANDER

TREATMENT IN BRITAIN. Mr. Lewis F. P. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Taylor, of Wellington, is still under the care of Sir H. U. Gillies, the eminent plastic surgeon. Skin grafting has been more than once successfully performed, and the patient was able to leave the hospital recently to spend a few quiet weeks with his mother, at Weybridge. He has returned to the Scottish Nursing Hospital, West Hampstead, to undergo facial skin graftProgress cannot be rapid, for the medical men can do only a certain amount at a time, Mr. Taylor having suffered so severely as the result of the aeroplane accident at Johnsonville some time ago. Mrs. Taylor is hoping that it will be possible for her to return with her son and the nurse who came with them towards the end of the ar - Meanwhile, the nurse is on the staff of the hospital, where she is gaining very valuable experience. She has been on duty at all Dr. Gillies’ delicate operations on his New Zealand patient. Mr. Taylor has been able to _ read most of the time, and he is still interested in studying all that is latest in aviation progress. He hopes that it will be possible for him to take a short technical course *before he goes home.