Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-20
Clinic for Crippled
Children to Be Held
Monday, Oct. 20

be held in Waterville under the aus
pices of the Maine Public Health
Association in cooperation with the
Waterville Rotary Club was definite
ly scheduled yesterday for Monday,
Get, 20. following a conference be-
tween representatives of the Maine
Public Health Association and Her
bert Emery, chairman of the Ro-
tary Club committee.
The clinic will be held at the Sis
ters' hospital. DR.. f. G. Abbott of
Portland. medical director Of Grip
pied children's clinics for the Maine
Public Health Association will be the
surgeon in charge. He will have
several assistants.
1t was announced yesterday that
the following cities and towns in
northern Kennebec county are in the
territory to be covered by the clinic:
Belgrade. Rome. Oakland, Smithfield.
North Sidney. Fairfield. Waterville.
Winslow, Benton, Clinton, Albion,
Vassalboro and China.
In order that no crippled child in
this territory may be overlooked, the
committee requests any person
knowing Of crippled child, to COM
muicate at once with Mr.. Herbert
Emery. chairman Of the local COM
mittee in care of the Emery Brown
Company. or with Miss Amelia Da =
kin. the Maine Public Health Assoc
erville.
There will he no charges of any
character at the clinic. 1t is also
stated that the clinic is for diagnos-
tic purposes only. No treatment will
he given at the clinic but recommen-
dations for future treatment will be
made to parents and in conference
with local physicians who are es-
pecially invited to be present with
their cases.
Arrangements are being made by
the Rotary Club committee to pro-
vide transportation to and from the
clinic for those cases which cannot
conveniently provide their own
transportation.
Miss Dakin. who IS unusually tact
full as we'll as efficient, is rapidly
making friends for her work in Wat
erville. She stated yesterday that
an office for the general work of the
Maine Public Health Association in
this vicinity has been secured In
the Waterville Savings bank building.
Beginning October /. she will sChed-
ule certain hours each day when she
can be reached in the office. During
the remainder of the time she will
be engaged in work in the fild.
For the present she is devoting the
major part of her time in Co-opera-
ton with Mr.. Emery's committee in
gathering data, case histories. etc,
for the clinic to be held here Oct. 20.
Already she has listed more than 40
cripple cases in Waterville and Win
slow and the number for the entire
Waterville district may approach the
hundred mark by the day of the elm
ic. A clinic similar to the one to he
held here will he held in Farming
ton Monday. under the auspices of
the Maine Public Health Association.
Clinics also have been held in Ban
gor, Augusta and Skowhegan. 9th
ers are being arranged in various
parts of the state as q part of the
1924 activities of the Maine Public
Health Association. Officials Of the
association estimate that when the
clinic series has been completed
nearly 1000 Maine crippled children
will have been examined and many
helped on the way to permanent re-
Covery.
These clinics have been approved
by the Maine Medical Association
and those that are being held in
Kennebec county are held in cooper
alton and with the approval of the
committee from the kennebec coun-
ty Medical Society.