This picture shows Dr. Robert Collis with a young Czech Holocaust survivor, Zoltan, who is suffering from tuberculosis, at the Fairy Hospital in Howth. Lee wrote of this set of pictures: “Dr Collis, nurses and sick children at Fairy Hospital, Howth, which was built with the proceeds of a play by Doctor Collis and other contributions he bulldozed characters into giving. He believes in the therapeutic value of love in curing children and gets them out of bed as fast as they are able to stand up with the idea of preventing further weakening of the body and the creations of phlebitis due to being bedridden. The small boy being shifted around and photoed alone and with Dr Collis is Zoltan, a Czech concentration camp survivor rescued and brought here by Dr Collis. He has a couple of vertebrae which are enlarged and horrid looking from tubercular infection. He has a fifty per cent chance of living and having won that lottery he’ll then have a fifty per cent chance of getting well enough to navigate on his own. He’s a charming kid and everyone dotes on him. He lives on a board, tied down.”
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