Many cripples of this county are being examined and treated at the orthopaedic clinic held on the fourth Saturday of each month in the offices of the County Health Department at Fayetteville. The next meeting will be on Saturday, November 28.
Crippled children and disabled men and women with clubbed feet, deformed backs, crippled hands, arms and legs are having their deformities corrected through the treatment afforded them free of charge by this clinic.
At the first session of this clinic 36 cripples were examined and many received treatment. At the second meeting a large number returned for further treatment and 15 new cases reported. Those who cannot be treated in the clinic but require operations are sent to Gastonia or Charlotte, where free treatment is provided indigent cripples. From this clinic two young men have already gone to Charlotte for operations. One has returned to his home and will report to the next clinic for observation.
The clinic is sponsored and supported by the Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville, which brings Dr. Alonzo Myers of Charlotte, one of the leading orthopaedic surgeons of the state to Fayetteville each month for the examination and treatment of the cripples of Cumberland and adjacent counties. Every disabled resident of this county is invited to attend the clinic.
From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 26, 1925
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