ROYAL HEALTH SOCIETY

Nelson Evening Mail, 27 September 1916, Page 7

ROYAL HEALTH SOCIETY

MONTHLY MEETINi l. The Committee held its monthly meetin? t>ll Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Buc-hanar: pre.-ided, 12 •iribm'bers being present. Miss ■Ledger was appointed' v in pla< t of Mrs Bright, who has ii;led the position for the last six months. Xm-st-i.Coney:fieJd sent in a satisfactory report of tho attendance at tin? rooms and the progress of the babies tinder her care. Accounts for tho month were passed, '-mounting to £3O 2.s Bcl-. /> letter from Mrs MartOeorge, I>unedm, late general secretary of the Socieiv. referred to her resignation, her suc-resfor 'being- iMiss .T.-dfMendininii. The resignation of .Mr? K'vans from-the Xclso:- CommitT-ee was accepted with regret, . A letter was a!=o rend Irom Mr? Hnskings. We'lliiiL; ton, referring fo the shortage of baby clothing- at Karetane. and .-uggesting that the various branches should help to supply the deficiency.— The nue-tion wa-s- left over fill next meet ing." Mrs liuchartn*'. read some extracts from nn iirticle in a Christenurch paper, dealing "with Dr. Anderson's report of the recruits, and the -high percentage of unfit amongst them, and sn<>;rjr-si.iii , g> that one of tne'i'hief causes lay in the want' of v>ror>er treatment in enrlv' childhood — a want which the Pb'nk'ot Society wns endeavouring to remedy. 'Mrs ißritrht also read a paragraph from a report of the conference of the British. Union of Sutfrare Societies recently held in T.o'j.don. which referred to the help aiven by the 'Overseas (Dominions for the '■elief of the mothers and fbabics suffering from the effects of the -war. ■NaaaanHSHaanana