PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 12 May 1908, Page 3

PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

The following letter was read from Lady Pluuket at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council: Dear Mr Mayor. —May I call your attention to the enclosed leaflet dealing with the work of the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children. That Society now has nurses established in the four principal cities of the Dominion, but I am continually receiving requests from other towns of importance, asking for advice as to how they could also secure the services of a “Pluuket Nurse,” and I am anxious to obtain an idea as to how many centres are likely to take the matter up. It appears to me that, where a town is hardly large enough to support and find work for a nurse, some arrangement might be made whereby the nurse could serve more than one town travelling short distances, by rail, back and forwards. For instance, Palmerston North might combine with Feilding, Napier with Hastings, New Plymouth with Stratford. In the meanwhile, to test the strength of the demand for these nurses, and to give the towns an opportunity of gauging their usefulness, the Society has arranged with one of our specially trained nurses to pay short visits to different towns where her expenses are guaranteed. She will remain, say, for a fortnight,deliver lectures, demonstrate to all mothers and those in charge of children, and visit mothers in their own homes wherever invited. Should you, on reading the enclosed leaflet, be willing to make use of this Nurse, I shall be much obliged if you will communicate with me, when I would send you the dates during which she is free. The Nurse’s terms are : Salary £3 3s a week, board and lodging and travelling expenses.—Yours faithfully, Victoria Putnkkt.