CONTINUOUS PROGRESS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 2

CONTINUOUS PROGRESS

MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING QUEEN ELIZABETH AS PATRON. The Mothercraft Training Society, in issuing its nineteenth annual report, anticipates shortly preparing for its coming-of-age celebration. With great pride the announcement is made that her Majesty the Queen has consented to give her patronage to the society, of which she was formerly president.

The society has organised various exhibitions during* the past year to show the many forms of its activities, and to make its work more widely known. One was at the Alexandra Palace from October 7 to 24, another at the College of Nursing in November, and a third at the Midwifery and Nursing Exhibition held at the Horticultural Hall in March.

The Scholarship Fund in memory of Mrs Robert Cooke was closed when it amounted ’to £546 15s 4d, and the money was sent to the society’s honorary treasurer, Sir Edward Peacock, who generously made up the total to £6OO and invested it. It will be possible, therefore, in a year’s time to offer a scholarship for four months’ free training to a fully trained nurse or midwife, or a contribution towards the training of a mothercraft nurse. The committee thank Dr. R. C. Jewesbury, the honorary medical director, for the generous gift of so much of his valuable time at the clinics, in looking after the -inpatients, and continuing to examine all the students both in written and oral work. They also thank Dr. W. E. Chiesman and Dr. A. Doyne Bell for their services in the weekly clinics, and Dr. Buckler, Dr. Carmichael, Dr. Garrow and Dr. Wood for theii* ready help and advice on many occasions.

Dr. Jewesbury’s report states that at Cromwell House there have been 13,347 out-patients during the year; while attendances at the Earl’s Court centre have totalled 8571, at Cardiff 7253, at Cambridge 2360, at Brighton 6060, at Newport 1513, at Kingston-on-Thames 3018. Out-patients at all branches have totalled an increase of 4000.

In-patients at Cromwell House have totalled 80 mothers and 177 babies. There have been 14 deaths. During the period under review 68 nurses

entered for training, among them being nurses from South Africa, Australia, Germany, British Guiana, India, Norway, Palestine, Sweden and Switzerland.

The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, is president of the headquarters’ section, and the Lady Plunket occupies a similar position in connection with the Earl’s Court branch.

Mr D. Morgan Evans, chairman of the Cardiff Clinic, reports that during the year ended March 31, 1937, the movement consolidated its position and made further progress in South Wales. The numbers have increased with a persistent regularity, and a full yeai‘ in the new rooms has more than justified the move into largei* premises. The finances, too, have shown a little improvement, and the credit balance, though small, is praiseworthy when full allowance is made both for the increased cost of running the new premises, and for the stubborn economic difficulties of South Wales. Newport, working harmoniously with Cardiff, has been making steady strides undei- its own local committee. Speakers at the coming annual meeting will include Lady Galway (in the chair), Miss Merle Oberon, Dr. R. C. Jewesbury and Sir E. R. Peacock.

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