PLUNKET SOCIETY’S CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 6

PLUNKET SOCIETY’S CONFERENCE

[Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 26. At the Plunkct Society’s annual conference a motion was passed with a view to 1 putting Karitane hospitals on a better financial footing, making every branch from which a. patient was sent responsible , for payment for that patient. It was also 1 resolved that . medical advisers bo ap- | pointed to certify to tho fitness of cases to enter hospitals, as instances were given where babies wero sent to the hospital when they should not have been, and tho authorities could not turn such cases away. I A sub-committeo was set up to draw up recommendations as to a nurse’s duty in the house and her relation towards other children in the family. Dr Tvuby King said, with regard to the supply of emulsion to branches that | twenty ions were now being manufactured' , at Scaclilf, and arrangements were being | made whereby this would 1 ba considerably | increased if oniy branches would have patience. I Tho conference passed a resolution j heartily approving tho practice hitherto 1 adopted by tho Government of supplying j suitable literature to a newly-married | woman, and urging it to continue tho . work to tho best of its ability, believing 1 that sucli literature wa,s of the greatest I benefit to tho mothers in country districts. The conference specially urged tho Government to provide funds tor printing : and circulating a book entitled ‘The ExI poctant Mother.’