Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-02-25 | Page 14 | Tiny Cripples to Walk Again

TINY CRIPPLES I ITO TO WALK AGAIN Operations Making Over Twisted Spines to Be Performed tn tat Tl n. n Tr T. am ht at ewt in NEW E YORK TORE Feb eb 24 Operations o Operations will be performed hereafter at nt the baby hospital 1 dispensary for after treatment of ot Infantile paralysis victims Little twisted spines anti and legs useless some soma of ot them as man many as eight years will wUl be bo made mno over anew at nt t the tho e hospi hospi- tal No o. o Throop avenue Brooklyn Dr Louis Louts C C. C A cr Is chairman of or the b board rd of or managers manners The Tho orthopedists orthopedist connected with the staff are aro Drs F. F B B. Ring Herbert C. C Felt Fell and J. J LEpIscopo Old cases as ns they they arc aro called by Miss lIu Joanna Mcchan Meehan head nurse areto areto are to be bo cared for or under the mont ment Because e cl every yard of ot space In Inthe Inthe inthe the building has been In use uso for tor treatment treatment treat treat- ment of ot victims of or last summers summer's epi epidemic d demic since the tho dispensary's opening last Jast October the operating room has hUB been useless for tor the tho purpose for tor which It W was I Intended As many as us children chil chil- dren have havo been cared for tor at tho the clinic In one du day duy On tho the registry now are names nuance of or sea 54 But nut tho the rush of or new cases Is over for tor tho the present Mrs the tho su superintendent superintendent su- su said In the past month wo we have havo opened a n morning clinic makIng making making mak mak- ing It possible to give gho treatments all aU day Also wo we havo o a n. ne new electric wall I plate and anel wo we have havo added two nurses to the tho massage massago department making nine nino giving 1 treatments Because there thero aro uro so 80 many less Jess ex- ex I we wo aro are doing away uway with much space given Jhon up to that purpose I and opening tho the operating room and word Children to benefit by the tho now new ar arrangement ar- ar are arc those crippled by epidemics epidemics epidemics epi epi- epi- epi of or years n ago o Ono One hasn't stood on her feet feel since 1909 Another has tho the grotesque p pathetic figure of ot humped humped- over age Twenty of ot them are comIng coming coming com com- ing to tho the hospital with eyes Ces wl wistful trul from watching other children play pIa and hope In their little drawn faces Tho hospital rooms are arc white enameled enameled enam enam- with wide windows they're there tho the sort of ot windows that look Hook out toward the sun Ono One passes between tho the white enameled walls and the tho windows and finds tho the shop of ot Dr TInkle of or Old Toy Town fame famo Its It's not named so at tho hospital Nurses call caU It tho the east room How- How over Its It's quite the tho same samo excepting here hero the tho Mender of or Toys works with live e dolls Instead of or tho the bisque babies of tho the story Tho The repairing apparatus is surprisingly alike in both cases There are braces of ot metal and leather leath leath- er t fashioned to hold legs till bones grow straight and strong There are arc braces for arms loosened at al the shoulder for tor all nU the tho world as the French dolls lolls are oro unhinged when the tho elastic clastic which is their muscles grows limp There TherA are pI plaster ter casts molded to encase tiny rounded figures The They look as M many a 1 French loll doll looks shortly short short- ly after atter Christmas Miss Meehan calls colls them corsets cornets Man Many a tL baby wears on onn for tor two Jon lone years