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Photograph - Group photo, 25/04/1982

  • COL photo of three people (one partially obscured) sitting around a low table. One woman (seated) has one hand resting on the table while the other woman (sitting on the table) is fitting a splint onto her hand, wrist and forearm. Only the bottom half of the splint has been fitted, and there are several other pre-cut pieces on the table. There is a chocolate cake on an adjoining table behind.

    Public Meeting on Juvenile Chronic Arthritis 1982: Splinting Workshop

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  • COL photo of three people (one partially obscured) sitting around a low table. One woman (seated) has one hand resting on the table while the other woman (sitting on the table) is fitting a splint onto her hand, wrist and forearm. Only the bottom half of the splint has been fitted, and there are several other pre-cut pieces on the table. There is a chocolate cake on an adjoining table behind.

Historical information

On Sunday the 25th of April, 1982, a Public Meeting on Juvenile Chronic Arthritis was held at the Royal Children's Hospital. Head Occupational Therapist at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Taplow UK, Sheila Lawton, was the third speaker at the meeting. This photo appears on page 2 of the Vol 26, September 1982 issue of the quarterly newsletter of the Rheumatism and Arthritis Association of Victoria (RAAV), News Review. It accompanies a detailed article on the benefits of splinting and its applications. The photo is captioned: "Miss Sheila Lawton demonstrating a splint during a workshop."

Physical description

Colour photo of one woman fitting an orthopaedic splint onto another woman's hand, wrist, and arm. Another person (partially obscured) is looking on. There is a chocolate cake on a table in the background.

Inscriptions & markings

[Handwritten in blue ink] N.R. Dec. ['Dec' has been crossed out] Sep. 82 [Printed on a long piece of tape adhered to the photo ] APR. 82 APR. 82

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