A GOOD SUGGESTION.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 609, 18 February 1921, Page 4

A GOOD SUGGESTION.

The letter in our correspondence column last issue urging the establishment of a Plunket Society in Pukekohe, brings forward a suggestion of far-reaching importance. No other single institution has done the work which later will be reflected in the national standard of child rearing which has been done by this society. Towns smaller than Pukekohe, and districts poorer than Franklin, have their Plunket Societies, and the mothers in those places rise up and call them blessed. The infant death rate in New Zealand is now, thanks to the great work of the Plunket Society, the lowest in the world, and other countries are now instituting Plunket methods. Last year there were 150 babies born in the Franklin district and there is no gainsaying the fact that if a Plunket nurse had been available for the mothers, the rearing of these children would have been easier on the mothers than it has been. On Monday evening next a meeting of all interested in the formation of a Plunket Society in this town is to be held in the Council Chambers, and it is to be hoped that it will be successful in its object. Just over two years ago the town of Cambridge, which is slightly smaller than Pukekohe, formed a branch of the Plunket Society and has a resident nurse available for the mothers of the district. Anyone doubting the success of the Cambridge branch from the mother’s point of view should make inquiries and will be told that it is the most important society in the district.