First Appeal For Five Years

Funds For 230 Cases Needed

For the first time in five years, the Crippled Children Society has made an appeal for funds, and is having a drive for more members. Most of the society's work goes unsung, but the necessity for funds is ever present. There are at least 230 crippled children in this area (bounded by Cape Runaway, Matawai and Mohaka, and known as the Gisborne-East Coast-Wairoa Crippled Children Society) and percentages being what they are, as the population rises so will the cases of crippled children. Funds collected for the society here are used only in this area, and the need is great. The society endeavours to help all cases, and the help is definitely there if needed. Some of the services provided by the society include — assistance and advice for medical and surgical services; transport to the local hospital, and to Auckland for those requiring plastic surgery, and also for parents to visit children, plus accommodation; supportive schooling for bedridden children; expenses for appliances; assistance with wheel-chairs; and finding work for those who are prepared, later, to train at the Dadley Foundation in Auckland. And there is other help as well. So if you missed out, but would still be prepared to join the society, contact the secretary!

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This child suffered 33% body burns. Plastic surgery will be paid for by the society for a series of operations over some years yet!

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An operation for Talipes was organised through the society for this child, seen here with Sister A. Nilon at Cook Hospital.

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Through the society this little girl has high hopes of overcoming, by methods developed in the last 10 years, a case of spinabifida, a condition where the spine is not fully operational.

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The society's field officer and medical social worker, Mrs Olive Hale.

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The secretary, Mr Arthur Bartlett.

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Society president, Mr John Hawkesworth.

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