A JUMBLE SALE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1924, Page 2

A JUMBLE SALE

The local committee- of the Palestine Plunket'Nurse Fund held a j-amblo salo last Wednesday in tho Trades Hall, ' Vivian street. The takings were. £22 ss, which was very satisfactory. News has been received that the work at Jaffa is increasing each raonth, and the repoit for June shows that the number of attendances on doctor's days.at the clinic arc 573, other days 279; visits to home 220, and new babies 60. The two nurses" who" cope with this work are kept very bnsy. - In her report Nmtu Asbbury says, "I am sending .this month a few photographs, mostly of some of our early babies in'their se"comt year. A is very pleasant to see these bonny infante now they have emerged from their early trouble. All have a. " history o£ some drawback or difficulty They are proof positive that our work is worth while, and give us renewed courage to attack the" numerous similar cases that appear hopeless at? the out- ' .start. AVei have two other. ,underfed bat»es, children of midwives curiou'lv c"?"S h-. Oue "as all the faults of the old-fashioned midwife—tight binders,'irregular, frequent, and night feedin-r.. She. however, is very anxious to leant all sho can, as it is her first baby, and • ■consequently we have liopes of her. The other unfortunate hus had eij.'ht children, three of whom survive. Tlio poor thjns insists Uiat she knows &iito well, how to manace, as she vfif fir&t a 'midwife, and second a mother of eiu'hl; she is perfectly satisfied with* a gain in weight of Jib in three weeks, because baby does not cry! ,She is one of those, people who require the utmost tact and patience; one has to coax her to attend the centre!"