Wilson, Jan. 4—The second orthopedic clinic for the treatment of cripped children, under the auspices of the local Lions Club and the state department of vocational rehabilitation, was held in the rooms of the Wilson County health department in the new courthouse Saturday, and the halt and maimed white and black, adults and children, gathered here from Nash, Edgecombe, Pitt, Greene, Johnson and Wilson counties to take the treatment. At the first clinic, 47 cases were handled, at Saturday’s session 14 new patients were examined, swelling the total to 62 now enrolled and under the care of Dr. Hugh Thompson, orthopedic surgeon of Raleigh.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1926
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