WELLINGTON KARITANE HOSPITAL
FORMALLY HANDED OVER EMULSION WORKS TOO (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. The Sir Truby King Karitane Hospital was opened to-day for immediate occupation. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, reviewed the growth of the Plunket Society during the last 20 years, stressing the great mortality among children through the ignorance of mothers of the correct methods of feeding young babies. This mortality was now reduced from 88 per 1,000 to less than 44 per 1,000. There are now 60 branches of the society and 1,000 nurses throughout New Zealand. Plunket methods were now adopted in all parts of the world. Simultaneously with the practical opening of the Karitane Home to-day the factory for the manufacture of special emulsion for the feeding of babies, the formula for which was ma(3e by Sir Truby King, was handed over by him to the private corporation. The profits are to be directed toward the advancement of the Plunket movement in New Zealand.
An export trade in the emulsion has already been established, and so far supplies have reached £360 worth to Great Britain monthly. This trade will be extended to other parts of the world.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19270506.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
197WELLINGTON KARITANE HOSPITAL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in