PLUNKET SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 15

PLUNKET SOCIETY

ANNUAL REPORT The twenty-ninth annual report of the Dunedin branch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children will be presented at the annual meeting of the society on October 13. The report states that the hope expressed last year that the health of the founder,. Sir Truby King, might show some improvement during the ■ year has not been fulfilled. TOa Daffodil Day street sale was held on October 4, the day’s takings amounting to the sum of £360 7s 6d, which, together with that which had already been collected by Lady Sidey and Mrs Sandford Cox, brought the total up to £4BB 7s 6d. Patients were admitted to the Truby King- Harris Hospital from the following districts:—Ettrick, Alexandra, Ky eburn, Roxburgh, Fruitlands, Henot, Poolburn, Benhar, Naseby, Chatto Creek, Omarama, Springbrook, Tahakopa, Konini, Hyde, Pembroke, Queenstown, Balclutha, Gore, Milton, Kelso, Waitahuna, Mosgiel, and from Dunedin and surrounding districts. Visitors to the hospital for the .year numbered over 5,000, including a number from overseas. Sixty-two nurses completed their Plunket training during the year. Of these 57 had previously taken general and maternity or midwifery traiinng, three had taken general training only, and two had taken midwifery training only. Included in the former group were five who had also taken a postgraduate course, and two who had, previous to taking a general hospital training, been Karitane nurses. . Knntane nurses in training numbered 14. There was a long waiting list of prospective trainees, but because of the number of general trained nurses depit with each year (60-62), it was impossible to admit more than 14 to 16 Karitane nurses for training.