BABY WELFARE
GROWTH OF ENGLISH CLINICS
METHODS TAUGHT BY NEVtT
ZEALAND DOCTOR
(From The Guardian's London Correspondent) i LONDON, October 8.
A maternity centre in London, run by methods taught by a New Zealand ■>«/ '„ doctor, now takes care of 260 baßites ' a week. Known as the Mothercraft \ Training Society, Highgate, the centre i was founded by Miss Mabel Liddiard, who first heard of Dr Truby King, of ~^~' ■- New Zealand, in 1920, when she was a young sister at St. Thomas's Host pital, London. When the opportunity came for her to learn his methods, she went to Dr Truby King and took a three months' course. • I
When Dr King returned to New Zealand she started a "Truby King" clinic in two small houses in Earl's court with Nurse Patrick (now Lady Victoria Braithwaite). Since those days, when they were delighted if. ten mothers a week came to them for advice, they have grown until they have clinics all over the world.
"We do everything by demonstration here," Miss Liddiard said this week" "Bathing the baby, feeding . the baby, cotmaking and clothes are all demonstrated so that the mothers know exactly how to do everything in a practical way."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 4
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