PLUNKET WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 3

PLUNKET WORK.

ENLARGING ITS ACTIVITIES. THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 26. At the annual conference of Plunket societies a motion was pa«j*ed with a view to putting Karitane hospitals on a better financial footing and’ making every branch from which a patient was sent responsible for payment for that patient It wae also resolved that medical advisors be appointed to certify to the fitness of eases to enter hospitals, as an instance was given where babies were sent to the hospital when they should not have been and the authorities could not turn such cases away.

A sub-eommittee was set up to draw up recommendations as to nurses’ duty in the house and in relation towards other children in the family. Dr. Truby King said, with regard to the supply of emulsion to branches, that twenty tons a year were now being manufactured et Seacliff and arrangements were being made whereby th would be considerably increased if only the branches had patience. The Conference passed a resolution heartily approving the practice hitherto adopted by the Government of supplyjig suitable literature to newlymarried women and urging it to continue the work to the best of its ability. believing that such literature was the greatest benefit to the mothers in the country districts. The conference specially urged the Government to provide funds for the printing and circulation of the book entitled "The Expectant Mother.”