MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17125, 21 April 1921, Page 2

MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING.

DR. TRUBY KINO'S METHODS.

(VROii QUI OWN COBRESrONDENT.) ■ LOXD'ON,-March 9.. Sinco the return to.lS«w Zealand of Dr. Truby King, in,Oetober of .1919, no departure of any kind has : been made from the methods and details for-the care and general management of mothers and babies, who have been treated at the centre founded at Earl's Court three years' ago. The annual report of the Mothercraft, Training Society, which the organisation founded by Dr. Truby King, is now called, shows that the sphere of influence has greatly extended, and the workis being more and more widely recognised. Doctors, infant welfare centres, and kindred societies show their appreciation of the work by constantly sending to the centre difficult cases to bo dealt with. "We are inundated- with requests for nurses who have had our special training." says the report, "and the Outpatients' Department »is steadily on the increase. There is still much to be clone, however, to make, the Society's work more widely •■'known-, -and to enable us to help even more mothers; for many, after coming to the hospital for advice, voice their appreciation of it by saying: 'We only wish we had known of you before.'.". ■A tribute to,the success-of the centre is paid in the annual report of the King's Cross branch of the Mothers' and Infants' Welfare Centre. "We would wish to record here," it is stated, deep appreciation of the Babies of the Empire xiome, founded by Dr. Truby King. During the year we have sent four babies to the Home, three of whom, we feel confident, would not have lived but for the skilled care bestowed upon them by this institution."

"A movement is on foot,"-the report proceeds, "to establish a replica of the Training Centre in America. The American ladies' connected with the Red Cross have been studying the methods and have generously declared they have seen nothing so good elsewhere. Dr. Jewesbury has carried on the work in the' Home on the exact lines laid crown by Dr. Tnuby King, which means that he has given the same extraordinary attention to detail in the case of every baby, and the committee cannot sufficiently appreciate the splendid work that he is doing. Brest feeding and the educational aspect of the work is oreached in and out of season. In April, Dr. Lambert held an annual inspection on behalf of the Ministrv of Health, and expressed herself well satisfied with all that shenaw.*'

Dr. J. S. Fairbairn, one of the honorary physicians to the Society, in a special'report says: ''The wonderful success of Dr. Truby Kind's methods, and the enthusiasm inspired among those who everyi day witness the living proof of it, should be studied by all those interested in the Infant Welfare

movement. A few years ago such re suits would have boon looked upon a* bordering on the miraculous: now they are an every-dny occurrence at Tiybovir road, and the work done withm the four walls of the Home is but .1 small fraction of the contribution ot the Mothercraft Training Society to tlw public good." AVith a view to securing n more »loiinite annual income, and to stimulate and sustain interest in the work of tho Society, the committee has had Articles of Association drawn up, so that sun* scriptions may l>e invited for life, nrnual, or associate meinliership. Any person who subscribes not loss tlm'i one guinea per annum may be a member, and the Executive Committee arc entitled to divide the members int.i groups, known as founders, governors, and ordinary members, according to the amounts of their respective scriptions. Associates are those who subscribe less than one guinea, but not, less than five shillings ner annum. The chairman of the Executive Committee, in succession to the late Lord Plunket. is Sir Alexander Roger.