RISING TO THE OCCASION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 8

RISING TO THE OCCASION

NEW ZEALAND.METHODS.

Last July a cable reached Sir Truby King, C.M.G., Director of Child Welfare for the Dominion of New Zealand, from a medical man asking that a "Earitane Nurse" (a nursery nurse trained in his methods) should be dispatched to Bio de Janeiro by the ship sailing the next day, Btates a correspondent of the "Glasgow Herald." The director telegraphed and telephoned all over'''the country in the hope of finding a suitablo nurse free to go at such short notice; at the last moment Miss Mary Truby King, who has recently taken the special training, sailed across the world to take charge of the infant whose mother was unable to do so, as she had contracted puerperal fever. Mother and baby arrived in London at the beginning of this month, and Miss King immediately arranged for them to be seen at the London headquarters— Cromwell House, Highgate.

This is just another instance of the growing appreciation of "Tho New Zealand Methods" and the increasing recognition of the wisdom of "keeping the wall baby well"—and not experimenting, continues the correspondent.

Parentu acknowledge the value of the "Truby King" stations, as one mother called fhem, where reliable, uniform, authoritative advice can be found as tho mother moves round the world; she can now bo passed on from New Zealand "to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasn/tania, and Perth, and travelling via Bouth Africa she will find the new Mo',hercraft Training Centre in Capetown able and willing to advise her on the same lines. Should she proceed to London, tho centre Sir Truby King f/ounded in 1917 is at her disposal. Likewise an ever-increasing number of 'mothers are advised to apply to the Truby King nurses on reaching the Dominion.

Miss Truby King hoped to spend a few days in Scotland before she returns to New Zealand at the beginning of November.