Is Your Birthday This Week? So is Patty Vandenberg's, now eight. She has been in the Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital at St. Ives since 1948. If your birthday is this week, will you give a birthday donation to the NSW Society for Crippled Children. Watson House, 9 Bligh St., Sydney? Patty is a blue-eyed little blonde from Paddington, and is an only child. When she isn't having treatment for her orthopaedic condition, Patty loves to knit frocks for one of her dolls. March 09, 1950.