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REHABILITATION UNIT, WESTERN HOSPITAL
INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY DR.W. H.KELLEHER,
PHYSICIAN SUPERINTENDENT
In October the Fulham and Kensington Hospital Management Committee opened a Rehabilitation
Ward in Western Hospital. At the present time only adult, female, cases can be
admitted, there being 17 beds,
Patients from hospitals in the Group suffering from physical handicaps such as those
which are the after effects of poliomyelitis, strokes and fractures are given intensive
physical treatment in ideal circumstances, Efforts are directed not so much to the treat
ment of the disease as to developing the good that remains to enable the patients to live an
independent existence, in spite of their disabilities, on returning home,
Treatment consists in physiotherapy suited to the individual case, and in ward games
and exercises of a remedial nature. There are no interruptions or distractions such as
occur necessarily in general wards of hospitals where operations, accident cases and cases
of serious illness commonly demand the immediate and exclusive attention of the Nursing
Staff,
The facilities provided are almost unique apart from a few very specialised hospitals
and will prove undoubtedly advantageous to the Borough,