PROTECTION OF INFANT LIFE

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1906, Page 4

PROTECTION OF INFANT LIFE

[»V KUXTJtIC TELEGRAPH,] [PEB P.BES3 ASSOO*_.!ON.] DUNEDIN, This Day. At tDo annual meeting of the Dunedin centre of the St. John’s Ambulance Association, while the work of a district nurse was being discussed, Dr Barnett said the work of a district nurse, was mainly with the old and helpless. He then referred to the infants on the threshold of life, who were practically poisoned by inTproper feeding, and warmly eulogised Dr Truby King’s timely efforts in this direction. Dr King, he said, was at present paying out of his own pocket a nurse to go round among the people of the district, especially among the poor, to show them what were the proper methods of feeding infants. Dr King was not only paying a nurse, but was providing the necessary requisites. That was very generous of Dr. King, but it should not bo allowed to continue. What lie (Dr Barnett) advocated was that the services of this nurse should bo taken over by the Association. The Premier, ho thought, would support such a scheme, and perhaps the Government would subsidise it. Dr Wall said a scheme such as was suggested had been drawn up. As the result of a correspondene with the Premier and Dr King, it was proposed to appoint three nurses. The Premier had been asked for a subsidy of 24s in the pound on money subscribed, and it was hoped that Air Soddon would reply on his return from Australia.