INFANT WELFARE
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
COMPAEISONS CRITICISED,
"Efforts by one section .to deprecate the good work already done by another only tend toward disruption and discouragement," said the New South Wales Minister of Public Health (Mr. Cann) recently, regarding certain speeches made in connection with the visit of Dr. Truby King to Now South Wales. For instance, said Mr. Cann, Dr. Henrietta Main, an English delegate, was roported to have said that the infant mortality rate in New Zealand was 17 per 1000 less than the best Sydney record. It was obviously unfair to compare the riito for the city of Sydney with that of the Dominion, the metropolitan rate always being higher than that of the whole State. Actually the State's best record was only 9.2 behind New Zealand's latest published Jigure. And again: In 1003 the rate for New Zealand was Sl.l, and in .1024 44.8, a reduction of 36.3. In New South Wales during that pgriovl a 21J.0 reduction was made.
".Dr. Pitrdy lias spoken of the lack of co-ordination between the Department of Public Health and such centres as the baby clinics," said Mr. Cami. "As an officer of that department., Dr. Purely should know that the clinics—or, as they are now called, baby health centres —arc under the Minister of Public Health, and are controlled by a committee, which comprises in its personnel such wellknown experts as Dr. Dick (DirectorGeneral of Public Health), Professor Windeyer, Drs. B. B. Wade, Clubbc, Margaret Harper, and Ludowich.
"Dr. Baymond Green is reported to have said that the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies has failed in its work of co-ordinat-ing the different bodies that arc helping mothers and babies. As a "vicepresident: nf the. society, I may say that Dr. flreen's statement, is quite incorrect. Am an lion, medical oUii'e,\ of the baby health centres, J)r. Green should know that these centres work in close co-operation with the Tfoynl Welfare Society's jMothorcraff Training Home."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 6
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330INFANT WELFARE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 6
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