Record #:

15476

Author(s):

Atkins, Stewart

Abstract:

The North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia is a large institution that has straightened the twisted limbs of thousands of children from needy families and which owes its existence to Robert B. Babington and the newspaper story he read of a widow and her handicapped son in 1908.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 28, Dec 1935, p1, 24, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital (Gastonia); Orthopedics; Babington, Robert B., 1869-1935