Post-Natal Care.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 11

Post-Natal Care.

A REMARKABLE STORY. A strange story was told by Admiral Mark Kerr, when ho spoke in aid of the Duchess of York’s maternity clinic of the Royal Free Hospital at the Albort Hall. The admiral described, it as an authentic ease. An English servant girl in the twenties, while under an anaesthetic, recited perfectly passages from Goethe in the German. When she came to sho was asked whero she had learned German. She

said she did not know a word of that tonguo, nor did sho know who Goethe was. In the Sub-Conscious Mind.

Her history showed that up to the end of the first year of her life sho was with her mother, who was on the household staff of a German professor, who was in the habit of reading aloud passages from tho work of the great German writer. Tho sub-conscious mind of the child must have absorbed and recorded tho professor’s uttornnees. Admiral Mark Kerr quoted this occurrence to illustrate the importance of the ante and post-natal care of mothers and babies.