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"The Wilson Home -- The Legacy" Celebrating 75 years

The Wilson Home -- The Legacy Over the sunny weekend of 20th to 22nd of April 2012 the Wilson Home in Takapuna held it's 75th Jubilee. Edith Morris was among the 400 who attended the celebrations. This home for crippled children was opened in 1937 to care for the first small patients after the polio epidemics of 1935. Edith spent almost 4 years of her childhood there from 1946 to 1949. Ex-patients, ex-staff, teachers, families and nurses gathered in the grounds of the Wilson Home to celebrate with tours around the gardens and buildings. The memory room, which was crowded most of the day, was filled with albums of old black and white photos, display boards, old prams and little walkers. We provided a display of photos, the Post Polio banner and pamphlets. Former patients spoke of happy memories in spite of often difficult rehabilitation during their time at the Wilson Home. People with polio came from Kaitaia, Opotiki, Hamilton, Christchurch and many from the Auckland area. Edith Morris represented polios nationwide with a short "thank you" presentation at the celebration dinner on Saturday evening, and again at Sunday's Chapel service.