Massage as a profession for the blind.

Date:
[Between 1936 and 1939?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Massage as a profession for the blind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Association of Certificated Blind Masseurs. In 1919 the above Association was founded to represent and safeguard the professional interests of blind masseurs and masseuses. Through its employ- ment bureau, doctors and prospective patients are put into touch with masseurs and masseuses, and it also acts as agent for two large Insurance Com- panies which undertake all forms of insurance for blind masseurs and masseuses. From 1922 till his death, Sir Robert Jones, K.B.E., C.B., acted as its President, and did much for the cause of massage as a profession for the blind; happily for the Association, he was succeeded in the Presidency by the Lord Moynihan of Leeds. The list of eminent medical men who have consented to become Vice-Presidents of the Association is in itself a criterion of the position that the blind masseur occupies in the eyes of the medical profession. The Eichholz Clinic. In July 1934, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales opened the Alfred Eichholz Memorial Clinic and Institute of Massage and Physiotherapy by the Blind, and, in so doing, to quote the Prince’s own words at the opening ceremony, “marked the accomplishment of the first stage of the work (7.e., of the School of Massage) and the inauguration of the second, in the promotion of massage as a profession for the blind.” The Clinic (which is the recognised national head- quarters of blind chartered masseurs and masseuses) was the gift of Mr. William Eichholz, who equipped it in memory of his cousin, Dr. Alfred Eichholz, for many years Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, and an enthusiastic worker in the interests of the blind. It is situated a few doors from the National Institute for the Blind, at 204-6, Great Portland Street, and its object is to bring before the public the special capacity of the blind masseur in giving treatment, and to provide
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