PLUNKET WORK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 26, 25 October 1919, Page 5

PLUNKET WORK

On November V tho Plunket Society will make an apptal for. funds to envry on its work. To face the future luiu. all its problems a sound mind and a sound body is needed for every inan and woman. Br mipoortinu the' Plunket Society much will be done to acluevo this end. The aims and objects of the society are: (I) 't'o nnhold tho sneredness of tho liodv and the dnt" of health: to inculcate a lofty view of tho lesiwusijaliof maternity and the duty ot e\cu mother to fit herself for the pert«t f» - lilment of the natural calls of molhe - hood, both before and after childwitli, and especially to advocate and tho breast-feeding ot infant--!. W J- 0 rtctiuiro accurate information and knowledg# on matters aft'ectms the health ot women and children, ami to disseminate such knowledge the agent'} its members, nurses, and others, >} means'of the natural handing on irom one recipient or beneficiary, to anotner, and the use of such agencies as periodical meetings at members' houses or elsewhere. demonstrations, lectures, con-ce-pondence, newspaper articles, pamplileu. books, etc. (!)) To train specially and to employ qualified nurses, to be calLed Plunket nurses, whoso duly it_ will 08 to give sound, reliable instruction, ad- / vice, mid fissislance, gratis, to any member of the community desiring such services, on matters affecting the health and well-being' of woinon, especially dnr-. ing pregnancy and wh'ilo nuVsing infants, and on matters affecting the health and well-being of their children; and also to endeavour'to educate, and help.parents and others in a practical way in domestic hygiene in general—all these things being dono with a view to conserving the health and strength of "the rifling generation, and rendering both mother and offspring hardy, healthy, and resistive to disease. (•!) To co-onenife with any present or future organisations which are working for any of the foregoing or cognate objects. Tho society wns started as a league for mutual helpfulness And mutual education, with a full recognition of the fact that, so'far ns motherhood and babyhood wore concerned, there was ar, much need for jiracticnl reform and "going to school" oil the part of the cultured and well-to-do as there was 011 the part of the so-1 called "poor-and ignorant."