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A STUDY OF PREVENTORIUM TREATMENT AND OF END-RESULTS

JOSEPH R. WISEMAN, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;39(4):758-767.

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Camp Hillcrest at Fayetteville, 8 miles from Syracuse, N. Y., was established in 1919 as a summer camp for undernourished children. By 1922, it had developed into a preventorium accommodating forty children, and remaining open all the year. Two years later, a wing was added with fifteen beds for crippled children, chiefly for those suffering from the after-effects of poliomyelitis. Camp Hillcrest is now a well equipped institution with 6 acres of high ground, vegetable and flower gardens, a shallow swimming pool and adequate space for play and recreational activities. The children sleep in open-window pavilions and attend school in open-window classrooms. The camp has a capable resident nursing and operating personnel, the medical and dental care being furnished by a staff of physicians and dentists from Syracuse and Fayetteville.

Girls from 6 to 14 and boys from 6 to 12 years of age are admitted for the treatment of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Syracuse University SYRACUSE, N. Y.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Nov. 26, 1929.

Retiring President's Address, Syracuse Academy of Medicine, Jan. 29, 1929.

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