HEALTH SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the People's Health Society, held in the Victoria Arcade .Buildings on Thursday evening, Mrs. Mary Dreaver presided over an enthusiastic gathering. It was decided unanimously after a discussion on "Maternal Mortality" to send the following resolution to the Government through the Minister of Health, the Hon. Peter Fraser: "That this meeting appeals to the Government to bring down legislation, encouraging young people to submit "to a medical examination to enable them to receive 'a clean bill of health' before embarking upon the serious ship of matrimony." This would, in the opinion of the society, do a great deal towards preventing maternal and infant mortality, and also would lessen the prevalence of the birth of "backward and defective children.
The secretary, Mrs. Edith Winks, who has just returned from a visit to the East, spoke on the Mothercraft Clubs in Australia and gave an instructive address on the work of women in hospitals in Tokyo and Shanghai.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 211, 5 September 1936, Page 15
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