PHILANTHROPIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 895, 15 August 1910, Page 11

PHILANTHROPIC.

PREMISES AND ESTATE GIVEN. (By Telegraph.—Press 'Association.) Dunedin, August 12. . At a meeting of the Society for tho Protection of the-Health of Women and Children to-day, a letter was received from : Mrs. Harris conveying an offer by Air. Wolf Harris to give the, society 'the''' premises and estatu at Anderson's Bay, constituting the Kaiitauc Baby Hospital, and to effect improvements '-in connection with tho grounds and buildings. 'Tho,letter con.tinu.oi> as follows:'— '■ "','.-".. ■ .. "Iri; making "this offer'it is. assumed that the primary intention of tho socioty, that the.institution should servo as a practical teaching centre for mattors bearing-on the welfare of mother and child, will be not merely maintained, hut will be extended and further systematised. It is also hoped that tho hospital will always be conducted in the simple, homely way : which .the society had immediately in view when the institution at Anderson's Bay was founded, and in accordance with tho rules and recommendations wliich the society have since passed as to tho. class of cases to be regarded as eligible- for-ad-mission. Tho donor specially desires. that, as far->as. possible, consistent with doing full justice te the babies admitted, the hospital will continue to be so directed, and managed that any mother in ordinary circumstances visiting it may feel that almost everything dono in the institution could be effectively carried out by herself in her own homo after receiving tho necessary instruction. As conducing to this end, it is honed that strict ecenbmy and simplicity in regard to buildings, furnishings, appliances, clothing, etc., will bo maintained nti heretofore, and that the treatment : will continue to be conducted, as far as possible, on broad, simple, practical; scientific lines, easily comprehensible by an ordinary mother." It was decided to heartily thank tho donor for.her handsome gift.