PLUNKET SOCIETY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 7

PLUNKET SOCIETY

MASTERTON BRANCH DR DEEM’S REPORT ON BABIES. NURSES CONGRATULATED. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Plunket Society vzas held in Masterton yesterday afternoon, Mrs T. Jordan presiding. There were also present Mesdames S. L. P. Free, N. Irwin, A. H. Falloon, J. C. Broad, R. C. Drummond, H. Morrison, C. A. Carmine, E. J. Heffer, J. V. Gordon, Sortain Smith, H. R. Keltie, P. Nathan, E. G. Eton, T. F. Watson and R. Miller. Apologies for absence were received from Mesdames J. Caselberg (president), J. D. O’Connor. J. M. James, T. W. Wardell, J. M. Coradine, D. Donald, E. G. Norman, I. Bunny, H. H. Daniell and Graham Cowie. It was decided to send a message of welcome to the president, Mrs Caselberg, who had returned from Australia. It was decided to postpone the mothers’ social until next February. It was reported that as part of the survey of 1,000 babies being carried out throughout the Dominion by Dr Helen Deem, medical adviser to the Health Council, and Miss Fitzgibbon, nursing adviser, 94 babies under 12 months of age had been weighed, measured and examined in Masterton. Dr Deem had expressed great satisfaction with the result and congratulated mothers and the nurses on the result. The Shetland shawl presented by Mrs Allan, Lansdowne, for competition had been won by Mrs Horne, Cole Street', Masterton. Mrs Cowie was thanked for her gifts. The nurses’ report was as follows:— Masterton, visits to office, adults 469, babies 458, pre-school children 37; total, 964. Casuals, 6. Visits to homes, new cases 32, old 76, total 108. Seen in homes, pre-school, 15. New cases for the month, town, 14. Out-stations: Tinui sub-branch: Blairlogie, Tinui, Annedale, 2 visits each, new cases 1, visits to homes 20. Mauriceville subbranch: Mauriceville, East and West, Kopuaranga, Mangamahoe, 1 visit each. Visits to homes 15. Pre-natal section, new cases 2, return visits 7. visits to homes 2, casuals 2, total 13.