CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22674, 30 July 1945, Page 4

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

SOCIETY’S ACTIVITIES OUTLINED Sister Armstrong, of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, was a speaker at the South Auckland conference of V.A. detachments of the New Zealand Red Cross Society in Hamilton on Saturday afternoon. She gave an outline of the work of tending and educating crippled children, the causes and forms of paralysis, the approved methods of treatment of various forms of the disease and the special equipment provided at the. Wilson Home. Sister Armstrong mentioned some of the Waikato and Country : districts that came under her parj ticular attention, how the children : were located, received and treated, j and how employment was found for ias many as possible. She added that ; some employers were reluctant to ! offer employment but happily they ; were few. The Crippled Children ! Society was endeavouring to make * those fit to work independently or i with practical independence, giving ! the young people self-respect and ! S'elf-reliance. To those partially resI stored the society provided monetary ; assistance. i “The young crippled children have « wonderful courage in their disabil--1 ity,” said Sister Armstrong. She added that when the society started operations they had knowledge of 107 cripples. Now there were 300 !on the society’s lists. The speaker pointed out that the figures did not • represent an increase in the number j of crippled children, but rather that | when the society started the sufferers ! had not been contacted.