PLUNKET NURSES
INCREASE IN WORK
The,work of the Plunket nurses in New Zealand has increased steadily from year to. year, and the need for funds has also increased. Consequently, the Society for the Health of Women and Children hopes to get good results from the appeal which is to be made to the public for funds on the day before Coronation Day.
In 1915 the three nurses in the Wellington area made 3907 visits to homes, received 1715 visits at their rooms, and attended 450 new cases. In 1925 the eight nurses then engaged made 14,407 visits, were visited on 35,366 occasions, and attended 1400 new cases. In 1935 ten nurses made 17,355 visits, received 55,015 visits, and attended 1467 new cases. An eleventh nurse was engaged during 1935 in the pre-natal department. The work' of- each individual nurse has. thus increased considerably and more funds will be needed in the.future if the full value of Plunket nursing-is:, to be. made available to mothers, and babies.>-■.
The value of the work.of the nurses is indicated by the low infant mortality rate throughout the Dominion, and for 1935 Wellington was able-to claim the lowest rate tor the "four main centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 4
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