PLUNKET SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21639, 25 November 1935, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY

' CHRISTCHURCH BRANCH The -monthly meeting of the Christchurch. branch of the Plunket Society was held in the Plunket room&i, .Chester street, with Mrs Cecil Wood presiding i over' a good attendance, including representatives from country ■branches.' Mrs Arthur Rose, a new member, was welcomed to the committee. . . Donations for the Lady King Karitane Hospital were received as fol-lows:—Sydenham*Cashmere-Spreydon sub-branch, £5; Opawa-St. Martins tub-branch, £lO 10s; Lincoln-Tai Tapu sub-branch, £5. ; The "Dominion .secretary advised the 'committee that from January 1 next •the:, training fee forKaritane nurses would be £4O. It was announced that Miss Eleanor Rose had been appointed to. -'fill the vacancy on the nursing staff, and had commenced duties on November 8. It was decided to hold a. meeting of-the. treasurers of subbranches on -Wednesday, December 4, at 10.30 ajn. ', It was reported "that a recommendation had been received, from a committee meeting of members, repre-. senting the. city, held to formulate a policy to increase the list of annual subscribers. It was pointed out thatalthough the visits paid to the central rooms had' been increased by 4317 in five years, the annual subscriptions had dropped by £BS during the same period, tin spite of the committee's endeavours to obtain annual subscriptions from the parents whose children .attended the' central--ropfos:*' - It wab decided to make' ah more annual subscribers in thjef city, and eachfmember was asked J;b |ry to give the. names of. three new annual subsoriDlgjrs to "me next meeting^ jFofc-'the central rooms, 'Nurse Allan reported as cases, babies, 102; visits paid %y/nurses to homes, 629. Visits to rooms:—Central, adults 998, babies 531; Shirley-Rich-mond, adults 96, babies 96; New Brighton, adults 100, babies 87; Linwood, adults 140, babies 134; Opawa, adults 52, babies 52; Woolston, adults 93, babies. 93; Sumner, adults 41, babies 37; RedCliffs, adults 32, babies 32; Sydennam, adults 156,'. babies 156; 'Spreyaon, adults ■ 88, babies 85; ■■ St. Martins, ,'adults 77, babies 76; Lincoln road, adults '34, babies 36; Riccarton, adults 128, babies 127; Papanui, adults 203, babies 190. .Fre-school' section:—New, cases 21, total number of visits 190, children under supervision; 1090. . Pre-natal section:-r-New cases 27, return visits 192, other, visits.29; cases under observation, 125. Out stations:— Leeston: adults 38, babies 33, and Seven pre-school, children. Southbridge: Adults 13, babies 13, and one pre-school child. Dunsandel: nine adults, seven .babies,' and two preschool children. Belfast: adults 17, babies 17, and three pre-school children. Marshland; -five adults, four babies. Kaiapoi: adults 35, babies 31, t'n'd ljve pre-school children. Temple:ton: adults 20* babies. 19, and four preschool children. Hornby: adults 40, .babies 40, and five pre-school children. Tai tapu: two adults, two babies, and one pre-school child.' ' Lincoln: 'adults' 19, babies 17, and four preschool' children. Visits paid to .homes, 89: new eases, .11. 1 The health and general progress of the - -Jbabies ■ and older .children had ,been good. Guide classes had finished .for' the term, - and the' recent "child "nurse ~badge".,-te3t for the Spreydon and. St Anne's Company proved that the. guides'"had. .benefited by ' the .classes. It was reported that' Nurses Attken and Merton were' taking the refresher'course in DUnedin. . For. the hospital, the matron reported that 13 .babies had been ad"' mitted, 10 had been discharged, and 16 were in hospital.' -Three mothers had been' admitted "to the mother's, cottage,- four discharged, and two were in residence..,

• DANCES ARRANGED < The' select old-time dance will be held /this evening at the. Caledonian HalL- Owing to the success of the Christinas' hamper Monte Carlo the •management has decided to increase the prize to .two. Christmas hampers. Besides-the usual prizes for. lucky spots sad Monte Carlos,' each-prize-winner becomes''.eligible, for • the two' Christ* mas hamper, Monte Carlos.'The final wUF be. decided 'on-Monday,-,' December 23.«. '-The band will 'V- ' ' , The popular' sixpenny*.' old-tinie dance will be-heldr-this evening the ; Alexandra Hall,-;when the annual yuletide Monte.; Carlo will be continued, the prizes? On the final nigMt -being two < hampers ~ and. four hams.. ~,*/-.;". -v.""- .'i : : ■ ' The popular sixpenny old-time dance will- be held .this evening'at the, Alexandra A further heat :of, the Yiiletide;4Mcßftte' Carlo for two' Christmas hatapefs : ahd,;f6ur:hams will -be Will hold its ] seventeenth; birthday; anniversary ; ball