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| Title: | Why Rotary? | |
| From: | Care Of The Crippled Child | |
| Original caption: | Edgar Allen Gates Hospital for Crippled Children -- 1915 Why Rotary? A brand new hospital -- "Gates" -- doors open, staff ready to give care -- but few patients!. . . There was need but why didn't the parents bring their children for treatment?. . . It may have been a false sense of shame, or guilt, on the part of many parents; too many crippled children were "hidden" in those days. . . It may have been a lack of funds (even at $1.00 per day for care!). . . It may have been doubt. . .lack of knowledge of this source of help. . . Whatever it was, Edgar Allen, who joined Rotary in 1919, felt that something should be done about it, and that Elyria Rotarians could help. . . What was needed, he felt, was some organization to "span the gulf between the parents and the hospital". . . In April 1919, with the encouragement of Sam Squire (Charter Member -- Elyria Rotary), Rotarians from Elyria, Cleveland and Toledo formed the "Ohio Society for Crippled Children", composed entirely, at the time, of Rotarians. . . By the end of 1919 the Ohio State Legislature had passed the "Comings Bill" (submitted by William R. Comings, superintendant of schools in Elyria), providing for hospital care for Crippled Children. | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | 1973 | |
| Format: | Pamphlet | |
| Publisher: | Elyria Rotary Club | |
| Source: | Elyria Rotary Archives | |
| Location: | pp.2-3 | |
| Keywords: | Accident; Advocacy; Charity; Children; Cripple; Easter Seals; Economics; Edgar Allen; Elyria Memorial Hospital; Fundraising; Hospitals; Institutions; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Ohio; Parenting; Philanthropy; Physical Disability; Poverty; Rotary Club; Service Organizations; Society For Crippled Children | |
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