LOWERING DEATH RATE
PLUNKET SOCIETY’S AIM Press Association PALMERSTON N., Friday. A new building for the Plunket Society in Palmerston North was opened this afternoon by Dr. Derrick, assistant director of child welfare. Dr.. Derrick said that Sir Truby King still had visions of further advances in Plunket work, and was optimistic about being able to carry them out Although the infant death rate had been very much reduced, the percentage of deaths was still too large in the first month of life, and in lowering that percentage lay further work for Plunket societies. FLe believed the solution would be found in the care of the mother before the child was born. The society was not forgetting the pre-school child. There was a tendency to lose trace of the child from 18 months until school time, but that would be overcome when the staff could be enlarged and they had more m As a* result of the generosity of the public the building was opened free of debt. An announcement was made that under the will of the late Mr. Hunter Shaw, of Patea, the PM merston North society had received a bequest of £l5O.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 6
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