Forty Cases Treated at the Allendale Curative Workshop

Foreword

“…The Allendale Curative Workshop also opened that year for outpatients experiencing varying forms of physical disease or disability, and of that facility Professor Hugh Glanville in the Casson Memorial Lecture of 1975, claimed 'rehabilitation in the true sense was being carried out here, and that superbly well.' A fascinating paper by Casson describing forty cases treated there was published in The Lancet in 1941 (Casson 1941).…”

“…Her contributions to that body included a decided opinion about prescription to ensure, in part, the 'guidance of those doctors who have to learn to prescribe well.' Prescriptions, she believed, must involve the triple interchange of doctor, patient and occupational therapist (Casson 1941).…”

Unique to Occupational Therapy

“…in psychiatry, during a study visit to the U.S.A. in 1925, was quick to see its val~e in helping patients with physical illness; encouraging MISS MacDonald, by then Head of Dorset House to visit Orthopaedic Hospitals in the U.S.A., before she participated in the inauguration of the Allendale Curative Workshops at Clifton f?r the treatment of patients with physical disability. (5) The Lancets» In an editorial in 1941, was quoting the success of Allendale, and saying "how the need to favour hospital schemes for the rehabilitation of injured people would fit in with Mr. Ernest Bevin's Plan. This plan was aimed at training people disabled (people) while in the services or in civilian life, through the setting up of what were to become Employment Rehabilitation Centres.…”