HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 9

HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

LECTURES BY LADY PLUNKET.

Her Excellency Lady Plunket concluded her course of lectures yesterday, when she addressed large meetings of women at Opawa in the afternoon and at Merivale in tho evening. There were present ou each occasion from _00 to •-'.3D, who listened with very great interest to tiio speaker. Her .bxceiieney again emphasised tho points sho Had aiauo in nor previous ieciures regarding the pioper care and leeumg ot t.-auit_, ana rtierrea at length 10 T.ne in.evc-.ny lor plenty or lvuuy n<*ii air, and not tli.tt vtitaiueti under a ieat„«r l«;raiuouluioi- nood, witn shawls and ciuerdown v.cii drawn up. llic- speaKer explained, by the aid of a chart, tlio loason v.-hy lii.:manist<l milK was to very niueii to be preioiieU to any our-.-tunu oi artmcial lood, and proceeded to eiei:iini_tr_iij how it should oc_ made. 6he albo quoled several cases wiiieh had cudie Jii.iit.-i' her owii ot_ervation wiiere it had been tim means of saving the* child's life. Her hxceilency directed the- attention of the audience to tho work o; the .Society for tho Promotion cf the Health oi Women and Children, lor whom she was speaking, and reminded them that xtic Urst annua ".'•neral meeting of the Society would be held on Wednesday next, .September 30th, at 8 p.m.. in the Choral Hall, when Dr. Finch would be in the chair, and Dr. Trubv King would give an address with limelight* views. Many mothers then brought forward their babies to show to her Excellency, and examined the model cot and perambulator (diado which wore displayed. 1 he lectures closed amid very hearty applause.