Help Tranport Kids to Free Orthopedic Hospital in Gastonia, Dec. 10, 1924

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Six Person County children have been sent to the Orthopedic Hospital in Gastonia for treatment, and have been wonderfully benefitted. There are a number of little helpless boys and girls in the County who should have this treatment. The requirements for admission to the Hospital are:

1. Possibility of improvement.

2. Sound mind.

3. Inability to pay for services rendered.

Each application blank has to be signed by the family physician, the cashier of a bank, one of the County Commissioners, and one other county officer. All this is done to prove that it is a worthy case, that the parents are unable to pay for treatment.

The State of North Carolina pays all expenses for board, laundry, surgeons and nurses. We simply have to pay for transportation getting the children to and from Gastonia. Some f the children have made several trips for treatment at different times. We think the average expense for each child will be about $50. Mt. Zion Church has pad the expenses of a child from that neighborhood by raising the money through different organizations—The Epworth League, The Woman’s Missionary Society and the Junior Order of the neighborhood.

We need more money. We need it urgently and at once. Will you send us a check for $1 or more right away? Think of rebuilding a little twisted body for $50!—of straightening a bent back or building up withered and twisted hands and feet.

We shall acknowledge all donations through The Courier. We will withhold your name from publication if requested to do so, but will include the amount of your check in our report.

Please make checks payable to “Crippled Children,” and mail to either of the undersigned, or leave with the cashier of either of the banks in Roxboro.

Bessie Heath Daniel, Chairman, Social Services Department of the Woman’s Club

Mrs. R.B. Smith, Chairman, Social Services Department of Mary Hambrick Missionary Society

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Dec. 10, 1924

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