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A NEW Annex to the Norman Wilson Memorial Infirmary has been completed. It is planned to restrict the Infirmary to more serious cases and to move other patients to the new building.

The new Annex has accommodations for nine patients. There are three private rooms and one six-bed ward. Each room is furnished with hospital bed, bedside table, mirror, lamp, and chest of drawers. The walls are finished in a soft green.

In years before the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, when this place was an old southern resort, the building housed many different gambling devices; it was known to the country around as "Griffin." In later times it became a tea room. Recently it was divided into two apartments for residents.

Work on remodeling the building was started in the early part of June. Walls were knocked out here, additions made there, new roof was put on, walls were painted, until now it doesn't appear to be the same building.

Two large porches, one screened and the other open, have been made to enable the patients to have their beds outside during the daytime.

The designing of the Annex was done by Miss M. Whitehead of Atlanta. Mr. William Ewing supervised the construction.

A large part of the expense of the new Annex was defrayed with funds raised by the New Projects Group of the National Patients' Committee. Besides money gained by contributions, profits of two entertainments, "Palais Polio" and the "County Fair," and a rummage sale conducted by the group, were used for the Annex fund.

The New Projects Group, headed by Mrs. M. K. Moore and others who co-operated, are to be commended on their work.