MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1921, Page 1

MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING.

DR TRTJBY KING’S METHODS. LONDON, March 9 | Since the returd to New Zealand of j Dr Truby King, in October of 1919, no | departure of any kind has been made from the methods and details fox' the care and general management of mothers and babies, who have been treated at the centre founded at Earl’s Court three years ago. Trie annual report of the Mothercraft Training Society, which the organisation founded by Dr Truby King, is now called, shows that the sphere of influence has greatly extended, and the work is being more find more widely recognised.- Doctors, infant welfare centres, and kindred societies show their appreciation of the work by constantly sending to the centre difficult cases to he dealt with. “We are iriudditted with requests for nurses who have had our special training,” says the report, “aXvd the Outpatients’ Department is steadily on tho increase. There is still much to be done, however, to make the Society’s work more widely known, and to enable us to help even more mothers; for many, after corning to the hospital for advice, voice their appreciation of it by saying: ‘Wo only wish wo had known of you before.’ ” A tribute to the success' of the centre is paid in the annual report of the King’s Cross branch of the Mother’s and Infants’ Welfare Centre. “We would wish to record here,” it is stated, “our deep appreciation of/the Babies of the Empire Home,- founded by Dr Truby King. During the year we have sent four babies to the Home, three of whom n o feel confident, would not have lived hut for tho skilled care bestowed upon therii by this institution.” “A movement is on foot,” the report proceeds, “to establish a replica of tho Training Centre in America. The American ladies connected with the Red Cross have been studying the methods and have generously declared they have seen nothing so good elsewhere. Dr Jewesbury has carried on the work in the Home on the exact lines laid down by Dr Truby King, which means that he has given the same extraordinary attention to detail in the case of every j baby, and the committee cannot sufficiently appreciate the splendid work that he is doing. Breast feeding and the educational aspect of the work is preached in and out of season. In April Dr Lambert held an annual inspection on behalf of the Ministry of Health, and expressed herself well satisfied with all that she saw.” Dr J. S. Fairbairn, one of the honorary physicians to the Society, in a ■special* report says: “The wonderful success of Dr Truby King’s methods, and the enthusiasm inspired a mong those who every day witness the living proof of it, should be studied by all those interested in the Infant Welfare movement. A tew years ago, such results would have been looked upon as bordering on the miraculous; now they are an every-day occurrence at liebovir road, and the work done within the four walls of the Home is but a small fraction of the contribution ofthe Mothercraft Training Society to the public good.” With a view to securing a more definite annual income, and to stimulate and sustain interest in the work of the Society the committee has had Articles drawn np, so that subscriptions may be invited for life, an mini, or associate membership. Any person who subscribes not less than one guinea per annum may he a mem-, her, and tho Executive Committee are entitled to divide the members into groups, known as founders, governors, and ordinary members, accoi mg the amounts of their respective subscriptions. Associates are those who subscribe leas than one guinea, but not less than five shillings per annum. The chairman of the Eexcutive Committee, in succession to the la J ° rC Blanket, is Sir Alexander Roger.