BULLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 26 April 1937, Page 3

BULLS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) BULLS, April 23. The annual meeting of the Bulls subbranch of the Plunket Society was held on Wednesday, Mrs Shaw presiding. Visitors were present from Marton branch and the Sanson sub-branch. Mrs Shaw welcomed the visitors. Owing to the large amount of sickness prevalent during the year, Mrs Shaw said, no special efforts had been made to raise money, and the funds were consequently low. Nurse Richmond’s work amongst the babies had. been much appreciated, and thanks were due to Mrs W. Bailey for making things so comfortable in the room lent for the nurse’s use. 'The report traversed various func lions, and regret was expressed at the resignations of three members of the committee, Mesdames Churchill, Montgomery and Tarrant, who have left the district. A movement is now on foot to erect additions to the Town Board’s oflico and library for a rest room and Plunket room, and it is hoped to have the necessary funds on hand by Coronation Day, so that tlie building will be a fitting memorial of that occasion. A donation of £lO from Lord Nufficld’s fund had been gratefully received. 'Thanks wore also due to Mr and Mrs L. V. Homes, Mr H. R. Wilson, and Air R. Mackay for help. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. 'The election of officers resulted: —President, Mrs Shaw; vice-presidents, Mesdames Homes, Holland, Wilson and Meads; delegates, Mesdames Shaw and Wilson; bon. secretary and treasurer, Mrs Farrer; lion, auditor, Mr R. Mackay; committee, Mesdames du Fresno, Holland, Homes, Kearney, Lundy, Meads, Mackay, Signal, and Trickcr (with power to add). .Votes of thanks were accorded the president, secretary and Airs W. Bailey. Mrs Shaw introduced Dr. Tweed, medical adviser to the Plunket Society,_ who said lie had been much struck with the figures in the Bulls report for the year, wliich showed that out of 19 new baby eases 16 were wholly breast-fed, two pariially so, and only one artificially-fed. This was very good, but until they realised that factors determining the health structure of their future families were there, for good or ill, long before young people _married, they would continue to have failures m breast-feeding that might be avoided. For Lhat reason right habits of living anti feeding were of vital importance for Vie growing population, and much light was being shed now on what constituted these things. Dr. Tweed detailed the recent investigations of Dr. Weston Price, who had come from America for the purpose of examining the dietary habits of those Maoris who still ate as their forefathers did; wdiosc skulls in museums show us the world’s best teeth and skeletal development. No contrast could be greater, he said, than between such teeth and facial architecture and our own, which (including those of modern Maoris) were the world’s worst. Yet we lived on the same soil, and our country flowed with milk, honey, fish, vegetables, fruit, and all other necessary things. Our choice of food was obviously at the bottom of this state of affairs. Nurse Richmond’s report was as follows: —Summary of work done at Bulls and Greatford during the year 193637: New baby eases, 19, of which 16 are breast-fed; visits to homes, new cases 21, old cases 86; total 107; visits to rooms, adults 331, babies 295, children 112; total, 738.