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THElf COME AND
?0 AT MANLY
Ot'the five children who were
discharged as medically fit
from ? ill? Uruiiiwond Home,
Manly, witliin tli0 last fortnight,
tliree had had trouble in some
way in walking.
Poliomyelitis hail alTlieted
niue-vear old Brian in Willow
Tree but li:s progress was so
rapid in the home that he was
able to walk cheerfully out
again, proud of the tact that lie
could cavort around in a les
iron for three months bet'oiv;
lie need return l'or. a medical
clieck-up.
From Narrabri, little Juline
had come wi;li a log' so wasted
that an operation was necessary
011 her foot. Alter the operation
and u brief period of buiug i:i
plaster she too, was more liKe
a, normal four-.vear old.
Feet operation and a time in
plaster were also necessary for
12 year old Jk-rvyn from Arnii
tlale. Although calipers nu.::t
support his young limbs for a
whiie, there will soon be notli
.iiB else to remind him of the
club teet Willi whirh lie was
boiT..
linck to liis home at Orange
last vcel weiil another 12 year
old-Xevillu. Af;er acute rheuina
tium. liis convalescent period j
rtistjied normality to heart that
might otherwise have troubled
liim all his days. |
To Miidgee Went the youngest
of them ail-nine months old baliy
ltoziynn. who, while gurgling
happily in lier bed, probably
never knew she was recuperat
ing from malnutrition in one
of tlu> bust babies' nurseries ill
Australia.
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