PLUNKET SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 10

PLUNKET SOCIETY

Appointment Of Medical

Adviser

DR. HELEN DEEM

B} r Telegraph—Press Association,

DUNEDIN. December 9.

The Dominion Council of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children announces the appointment of Dr. Helen Deem to the position of medical adviser to the council of the society. Dr. Deem qualified M. 8., Cli.B. (N.Z.) in 1925. To further her knowledge of infant welfare she later entered the Truby King-Harris Hospital in Dunedin and went through the complete course laid down for I’lunket nurses and acquired a thorough knowledge of the I’lunket system and the technique of baby management. In 1928, as Lady King Scholar for that year, she spent a year doing research work on human milk and collected material for her doctorate thesis. In 1928 she obtained the degree of doctor o. f medicine.

After holding several appointments in New Zealand, Dr. Deem went to England, where she did post-graduate maternal and infant welfare work, obtaining the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians an'd Gynaecologists (England) in 1935. In 1936 she returned to New Zealand and was appointed School Medical Officer and assistant to the Medical Officer of Health in Hamilton, in which position she. has been able to study the nutrition of the school child and the pre-school child, and has lectured to parents, teachers and nurses on dietetics, general health, and physical education.