Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
D. C. K|WAN|S WORK
TOBE TOLD SESSION
Edwin F. Hill Arranges for
Distribution of Publication
at Atlantic City.

The work of the Washington Kiwanis
Club in aiding crippled children will be
called to the attention of Kiwanis Clubs
from throughout the United States and
Canada at the fourteenth annual con-
vention of Kiwanis International, In At
lantic City, which opens tomorrow and
continues through July 8.
Edwin r. Hill Of the local club has
arranged for the distribution of some
500 extra copies Of Ki-Grams, the local
clubs publication, containing articles
by Radford Moses, past president Of the
Washington Kiwanis Club and now
District trustee, and Harry @. KimbalI,
former president of the local club and
past governor of the Capital KiwanIs
district, in which they set forth In de-
tail the work Of the local club among
crippled children.
The Washington Kiwanis Club has
blazed the trail in work among Kiwanrs
Clubs for crippled children. It also
takes pride in the establishment OF two
schools In the National Capital for
crippled children. In the latter con-
nection, Mr.. Moses states in his article
in Ki-Grams, which is to be distributed
at the convention:
Lobbying in Congress may be a high
crime. If it is, the Kiwanis Club of
Washington stands convicted, for it was
through the efforts of the Kiwanians in
interviewing congressional committees
that the establishment of the two
schools for crippled children were au-
thoriZed"
New Buildings Aim.
Mr.. Moses concludes his article with
the statement that "Kiwanis looks for
ward to the day when the crippled chill
dren of Washington will occupy new
buildings constructed and equipped for
the purpose for which they are to be
used" He praises the efforts of AS
sistant Supt. of Schools Jere j. Crane
for making the existing building, now
in use, disable as schools for crippled
children.
Mr.. Kimball, telling of the work of
the club in treating and caring for
its orthopedic and welfare committee,
declares:
THE cost of this worthwhile humani-
tartan accomplishment has been rela-
lively small. In the eight years the
club has expended $25,362 Hospital
ization has cost $14,796. nurses salaries
SO, 466, and automobiles for the use OF
nurses in visitations, 81 100.
Surgeons and doctors have donated
their time and skill. Otherwise the
activities of the club would have been
leSsoned somewhat.
Telling Of the number of cases treated
he says:
Prom April, 1928. through 1929. the
list Of cases has mounted to over three
hundred. A brief summary Of these
800 cases may be Of interest.
Seventy-Six Paralysis Cases.
Paralysis heads the list with rs cases
Ricketts, is close second with 70 cases.
Congential troubles and malformations
were the causes given In II cases. Bad
tonsils and adenoids were the sole trou-
bic in cases. There we're many more
cases where there were tonsil and
adenoid operations in connection with
operations for other troubles
"Tubercular conditions accounted for
10 cases, accidents caused 9, curvature
of the spine, IL; club feet, fiat feet, and
other foot troubles were responsible for
the condition In IS cases. Eight cases
we're mental, and in % cases the cause
Of the trouble was not given.
Other cases he points out, were at
tributed to various other causes.