PLUNKET SOCIETY.
(P3889 ASSOCIATION TELSORAM.) DUNEDIN, July 3. The annual report of the Central Council of the Plunket Society records a marked increase in the percentage of babies nurtured naturally. Progress by the branches is evidenced in an increase of nearly twenty-five per cent, of babies attended by Plunket nurses. As the outcome of the Dr. Truby King health campaign, branches at Thames, Whangarei, Dargaville, Te Kuiti, Lyttelton, and Darfield applied for resident Plunket nurses. The total number of babies under the care .of the Plunket nurses was 28,328, and the number of visits paid by Plunket nurses to homes was 108,47(3. The number of visits of mothers and babies to the Plunket rooms was 226,257, and the number of babies breast-fed (new cases), 880 G. The infantile death rates of the four main cities in 1922 were the lowest on record, being under 4.2 per 100 births. Last year the rate -was 4.7 per cent. The fpllowing are the infantile deathrates for the four main cities:—Auckland, 4.3 per cent.; "Wellington, 4.9; Christcliurch, 5.4; Dunedin, 4.0. The total expenditure of all branches for the vear ended March 31st was £36,772 0s 9d.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17806, 4 July 1923, Page 7
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