SAFEGUARDING HEALTH.
PLUNKET SOCIETY’S CONFERENCE. MINISTERIAL PRAISE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 25. The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Health, to-day opened the biennial conference of the Plunket Society, and paid a high tribute to the work being done by the society and said he hoped the annual infant death rate of 1500 would soon be reduced to 1000. The Government last year had had to cut out the votes for 19 other deserving organisations. hut the Plunket Society had not been touched, and he trusted that its good fortune in this respect would continue, although he hoped that the society would not ask for an increased grant. The society and he were co--1 workers in safeguarding, the health of the rising generation. The society was doing valuable vVork in preaching the gospel of health. , The Minister also referred to the good work done, at summer school eamps held for the benefit of ill-nourished children. Dr. Truby King said it was perfectly feasible to reduce the infant death rate from 1500 to 1000 a year in a few years and said that there would be far less need for hospitals if people undermors about conserving health.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1922, Page 5
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197SAFEGUARDING HEALTH. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1922, Page 5
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