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G E N E R A L
Jf anyone has a copy o f PH Y SIO T H E R A PY  JU LY , 

1954, please be kind enough to let. Mrs. Levy have it as it 
is required for record purposes. H er address is, 105, Acacia 
R oad, Blackheath, Johannesburg.

P O S T  GRADUATE C O U R SE—April 13th to June 5th 1959.
The Cape Province Cerebral Palsy School in R ondebosch 

are making arrangem ents to pay the expenses for D r. and 
Mrs. Bobath to run an eight weeks course next year on T H E  
BOBATH method o f treatm ent.

The course will be limited to 30 members of the S.A. 
Society o f Physiotherapy at a cost o f about 40 to 50 guineas. 
In England this course costs £80.

Those members interested, please apply to:
The Principal,

Cape Province Cerebral Palsy School,
M ilner R oad,

R O N D EB O SC H , CAPE.

C O U N C IL  O F  A LLIED M ED ICAL P R O F E S SIO N S
It has now been decided to call the M edical Auxiliaries 

Council “ The Council o f Allied Medical Professions.” 
Members o f this body are meeting from  time to time and 

general policy is being formulated. The two representatiyes 
from our Society report back to  the C entral Executive 
Comm ittee so we are being kept informed o f proceedings.

RAY M O ND  DART FUND
Physiotherapy in South Africa owes a great deal to 

Professor D art. I t  was he who launched Physiotherapy in 
this country and he has always been our cham pion. As will 
be seen in another p art o f this Journal a fund is being 
started in his nam e and we as a society want to  give it our 
whole-hearted support. Past students o f the University o f 
the W itwatersrand will be particularly interested and keen 
to be associated w ith this scheme.

NEW  M EM BERS
Western Province.
Miss J. M. G race, “ Bizena,” Southfield R oad, Plumstead, 

Cape Town.
Miss G . Felton, 4, Stratton C ourt, V oortrekker Road, 
Bellville, Cape TOwn.
Northern Transvaal.
Miss E. M. Jennings, Pretoria Hotel, 611, Schoeman Street, 

Pretoria.
Mr. J. M. H atch, 6. Triangle Building, W itbank, Transvaal. 
Miss E. Redelinghuys, 105,' Nuffield Street, R ietondale, 

Pretoria.
N atal Midlands.

Mrs. V. R obinson— 4, Strathallan, Killarney Terrace, 
Pieterm aritzburg.

O.F.S.
M rs. J. J. Wessels—3, R oth Avenue, Bloemfontein,

O.F.S.
M ISSIN G  PER SO N S

Mrs. Lewis—Vereeniging. Please send any inform ation 
o f whereabouts o f the above to the G eneral Secreatry,
S.A.S.P.

B IR TH S
To Estelle (Alberts) and Bob D eane, a daughter in M arch 
in Bloemfontein—Jayne Caroline.
To Mrs. R obinson m .c .s .p . and M r. R obinson, a son, 
October, 1957.

CHA NG E O F  ADDRESS
Miss H . M. Benford, Treasurer, C.E.C.

39, M oray House,
Johannesburg.

A P P O IN T M E N T S  SECRETARY

Mrs. C. C unningham , Assistant Secretary, C.E.C., 
c /o  Physiotherapy D epartm ent,

G eneral H ospital,
Johannesburg,

has taken over the d u tie s  o f A ppointm ent B ureau Secretary 
in a tem porary capacity.

Letter to the Editor
Editor,
“ Physiotherapy.”

D ear M adam ,

P H Y S IO T H E R A PIST S AND M ANIPULATIO N S.

A t C ouncil’s meeting, a t East L ondon, in September of 
last year, the W estern Province B ranch subm itted a reso­
lution, intended for discussion, as to  w hether or not members 
o f our Society should undertake m anipulative treatments 
on patients under Anaesthetics. The object was rather to 
have a  general discussion than a ruling, but it would appear 
th a t this item was placed tow ards the end o f the Agenda. 
Practically no discussion at all to o k  place, but Council 
resolved th at it would be com petent to  a physiotherapist to 
perform  m anipulative treatm ents on patients anaesthetized, 
provided th at a doctor was present as well as the anaesthetist. 
In  order th a t the position may be quite clear I feel that the 
following observations should be publicised through the 
Journal. My branch has already notified the General 
Secretary that a resolution from  us will seek to review and 
rescind C ouncil’s Resolution, and we have done this for the 
following reasons: The Physiotherapy Council, not a 
Statutory Body, is, in fact, not com petent to  rule on this 
point w ithout p rio r sanction o f the S.A. Medical Council, 
which body, o f course, has Statutory Status, and on whose 
Auxiliaries Sub-Comm ittee we are directly represented. 
Obviously, therefore, even if  the ruling o f o u r own Council, 
at East L ondon, is acceptable, it does not follow that a 
physiotherapist is legally entitled to  m anipulate a patient 
who is anaesthetized. A fter very serious consideration, and 
discussion with my colleagues on our branch committee, 
and w ith M r. Posselt o f P o rt Elizabeth, who was in Cape 
Town on a visit, I  am  convinced th a t a physiotherapist is 
N O T  entitled to  expect to be allowed to  handle a patient 
who is under the influence o f anaesthesia: In my view, this 
is clearly the responsibility o f an orthopaedic surgeon, and
I take this opportunity o f urging physiotherapists NOT to 
agree to undertake such treatm ents.

Y ours faithfully,
G . S. SC H ERM BRU CKER.

In Mmortam
M rs. Phyllis Evans (nee Tasker).

T he sincere sym pathy o f the South A frican Society of 
Physiotherapy goes to  the husband M r. D . Evans, f .r .C-S. 
and fam ily o f the late Mrs. Phyllis Evans (nee Tasker) who 
died tragically in a m otor accident while on her honeymoon-

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