PLUNKET NURSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 13

PLUNKET NURSES.

SOCIETY'S APPEAL TOR HELP. LETTER TO RUGBY LEAGUE. The effort of the Management Committee of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children to augment its funds owing to the need for increasing the number of nurses, was the subject of an appeal addressed to the meeting of the Auckland Rugby League last evening. "During the past year," it ran, "the society was compelled to practise the most rigid economy. Its nurses worked far harder than was fair to themselves or to those whom they saved. Plans for the development of the service in proportion to the needs of population, were deferred." It was also mentioned that in Auckland there was one nurse to every 16,000 of population, whereas in Wellington the proportion was one in 9000. In this city each nurse dealt, on an average, with 100 cases daily, which was more than double the maximum number laid down by competent authorities with which a nurse should be required to deal. The Advisory Committee of the League recommended that the matter be held over for consideration, and this was adopted. , .