NEW GUINEA. PHYSIOTHERAPY. AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA WHICH HAS TAKEN OVER A ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number 014560
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea
Date made 1 April 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

NEW GUINEA. PHYSIOTHERAPY. AT AN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NEW GUINEA WHICH HAS TAKEN OVER A SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED NATIVE HUT TO CARRY OUT REHABILITATION TREATMENT - THE AIM OF WHICH IS TO RESTORE AS QUICKLY AND FULLY AS POSSIBLE MUSCLE POWER AND JOINT MOBILITY. THIS PICTURE SHOWS A GENERAL VIEW OF PATIENTS UNDER TREATMENT IN PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT. IN THE FOREGROUND MISS ELLIS FINNEY OF SYDNEY, & MISS ROSSLYN MURRAY. (NEGATIVE BY N. BROWN).