Thanks largely to the efforts of Mrs. H. Durham, a much-needed clinic has been started at Rushden, and the very satisfactory commencement on Wednesday last is proof of the need for such an organisation and a promise of continued success.  Mrs. Durham, who is one of Rushden’s representatives on the Wellingborough Board of Guardians, has been impressed by the excellent record of the Working Men’s Clubs’ Fund for the Blind and the Crippled Children, and, realising that many of the young cripples had to be taken periodically to the Wellingborough clinic for examination and treatment, conceived the idea that much time and trouble would be saved to the Rushden district patients and their friends by having a clinic at Rushden.  For twelve months she has done much preliminary work, and a strong committee has been appointed, with Mrs. Winters as president, Mrs. C. Cross as vice-president, Nurse Mather as secretary, and representatives of the district covered – Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Raunds, Irchester, etc.  A very suitable suite of rooms at the Y.M.C.A. Hall having been secured, the clinic was duly opened last Wednesday.  The organisation will, for the time being at least, be financed by the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital at Northampton.  Dr. F. Wilson Stuart, an orthopaedic specialist, who has been visiting the Wellingborough clinic periodically, will attend the Rushden clinic once in two months and the Wellingborough clinic the alternate month, so that urgent cases can be taken to either place.

  At the opening on Wednesday Dr. Stuart was accompanied by Miss Dickson (hon. county clinic organiser), Mr. H. G. Lewis (secretary of the Manfield Hospital), Mrs. Crockett, and a lady doctor and nurse from the “Manfield.”  Twenty-seven patients were brought in on Wednesday and received every possible attention.  Dr. Stuart expressed himself as being greatly pleased with the rooms and told a representative of The Rushden Echo that he had great hopes of a useful career for the Rushden clinic.  Mrs. C. Cross entertained the visitors and workers to tea.

  The Rushden clinic will be opened once a fortnight – on alternate Wednesday afternoons.