PLUNKET SYSTEM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 December 1924, Page 7

PLUNKET SYSTEM.

DOCTOR’S PRAISE. \ ' ! LBY TELEGIiAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. f AUCKLAND, Dec. S. , methods ronoweu uy ulje pubHe neaiin autiiomies m aie gieat centres of Urea* ibritam -and** tne United. States were ciosely investigaterl by Ur. j. Gumpston, chief nealth officer for the Commonwealth of 'Australia, who arrived by the Niagara, to-day... Dr. Oumpston also Visited Paris, whore he attended an intei national conference of 'Governnj^nUh®aßn officers, the chief business or which was tq.--ievi.se' the .quarantine systems of the countries represented Dr. Oumpston said that lie had not seen anywhere any ■ system as good as of the dental control' of school children in force in New Zealand He was of the opinion that- the Plunket system operating in the Dominion was better organised and controlled and more widely controlled than anything he had. seen in the United States. The Americans, did fine* work in this direction hut taken as a piece of national work, the New Zealand system was far ahead of anything that had come under his observation.

While there were some things in the public health administration in the LnitetT States,, which could with benefit be adopted in these southern countries,. and there were certain phases of administration of the health of the people which suggested modifications in the system in operation in Australia, the average of the. prosperitv, •education, and happiness of the people at JNeiv Zealand and Australia made many of the drastic methods in force: in American communities quite un-nc-ressarv here.

, Gumaston. who is accompanied bv Mrs. Oumpston. will spend some weeks in New Zealand before going on to Australia, and will take the opportunity of conferring w ;il, tlm DirectorGeneral of Health (fir T H A ' Valintine) and bis staff in order to bring himself np.Uvda.te nn rh e methods employed in New Zealand