PLUNKET SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 5

PLUNKET SOCIETY

MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of the committee of the Dunedin branch of the Plunket Society was held on Friday, when there were present Mrs J. M'George (in the cjiair), Lady Sidey, Mesdames Begg, Cairuey, Cunningham, S. Cox, Mandeno, A. H. Allen, D. Reid, Cleghorn, Paris, Solomon, Myers, Gillou (Taieri), Caiman, Williams, -Fan-maid (Taieri), Speight, and Gallaway, and Miss Johnstone. The August report of the matron of the Truby King-Harris .Hospital was received. During the month 16 mothers and 27 babies had been admitted, and 23 mothers and 36 babies had been discharged. Patients were admitted from Milton, Balclntha (2), Heriot, Tapanui, Wedderburn. Goodwood, Ashburton, and from Dunedin and suburbs. • The charge nurse of tho central Plunket rooms reported that district statistics for the month were:—Babies on tho list, 1,715 j older children on the list, 683; visits paid to homes, 1,551 ; visits paid to offices, 3,853 (mothers 1,921, babies 1,694, older children 238) ; new cases for the month (babies only), 162; babies breast-fed (including partly), new cases,. 137. The out-stations visited l were Mosgiel, Abbotsford, Green Island, Ravensbourne, Maia, Burkes, St. Leonards, Port Chalmers, Middlemarch. Concord, Macnndrew Bay, Outran), Waikouaiti, Dunbaek, Hampden, Moeraki-Kartigi, Shag Point, Seacliff, Puketeraki-Kari-tane, Waitati. Warrington, Omimi, and Goodwood. Visits were paid l to suburban rooms as follows:—Roslyn 8, North-east Valley., 10, Mornington 15, Anderson’s Bay 9, Caversham Kindergarten 10, and South Dunedin 2 (4 p.m. daily excepting Saturdays and Sundays). The Pnlmsorston Nursing Home had been visited l weekly,_ and Middlemarch Hospital was visited three times. Two special days for older children were given in August, one at the Mornington clinic rooms and the other at the central rooms at which

Misses Cartel- and Tingey combined. These were well attended', and mothers were very interested in the demonstration materials the nurses had prepared. It was decided to hold Daffodil Day £>u Friday, October 13,