PROMOTION OF HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 8

PROMOTION OF HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

CANTERBURY SOCIETY. Tlie monthly meeting of tbo Society for tho Promotion of the Health of Women and Children was -held on Monday, January 18th. in the St. John Ambulance Room. *I_o treasurer's .tatemen.t showed a balance of £1.7, r.fter the payment of outstanding liabilities. As at least £300 per annum is required- to carry on the work, the committee wishes to impress on all nvTr.'bors and others interested- in the society the urgent need there i. for further subscription, ond donations. Both Nurse Morgan and Nurse M.-uar-thy. who conit_enct_l her duties as assistant nur__ this month, have thoir lianc. quite full, there being at pre-se-nt 92 cases on their list.

A deputation from the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and rri-iMyon. consisting of Mesdames Pvno, Sandstein, and Pratt, waited on 'the Men. (i. Kowlds yesterday in reference to a Government subsidy in aid of the society's work. Mrs Pvne stated that it would take about £350 to meet all their engagements for the year, and although they had a larger membership the ._ib_cri_-tion_ were in smaller sums. They had two Plnnket Nurses at work visiting some ninctvtwooases. The Minister pointed out that the matter was now under the control of the Hon. Mr Buddo, who had taken over charge of the Department of Public Health. Last year a vote was taken for the Health Department for the purpose of subsidising similar societies in the four centres, £400 bei„g then available. Since that time societies had sprung np in the smaller centres, and it had been determined to appropriate, say, £500, and t__y subsidies according to the amount *of subscriptions received by each soeietv—the -amo as was done in the case of "public libraries. The speaker would be pleased to bring tho representations of the d. nutation before his colleague, the Minister for Public Healtb.