Plunket Committee Considers Month’s Work

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 222, 18 September 1943, Page 2

Plunket Committee Considers Month’s Work

Mrs. G. C. Petersen prosided over tho September meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Plunket Society. The Plunket nurse (Miss K. H. Thomas) reported that there had been a total of 1714 visits to office (adults 1886, babies 738, pre-school children 90;. There had been 273 visits to homes and there were 60 new cases. Dr. D. Cook had visited the rooraß and immunised children for diphtheria. One baby had ooen admitted to the Karitane Hospital, Featherston. Flowers for the rooms were gratefully acknowledged from Mesdames H. Scott, JR. Edwards and W. G. Black. Four visits had been paid to Foxton where visits to office totalled ! 177 (adults 87, babies 72, pre-school children 18). There were three new cases. Sales for the month of karilac, etc., amounted to £3 19s sd, subscriptions £7 Os 6d, accrued from money box £1 12s sd, making a total of £l2 12s 4d—- ! tho report was adopted. A grant of j£so from tho Macarthy Trust was ] gratefully acknowledged. The first I annual report of the mothers' club was i before the meeting, the president re‘marking that this energetio group had J been a real help to the society and bad raised £9O during the year with the expressed determination of doing better next year. Officers elected at the new year at the annual meeting over which i Mrs. Petersen presided, was as follows: ■President, Mrs. C. S. Lawson; vice- ! president, Mesdames J. A. Dinley and jO. Stcveson; hon. secretary, Mrs. A. K. R. McDowell; treasurer, Mrs. L. Corkill; • committee, Alesdames Barrett, Caldwell, | Da wick, Doak, Furlong, Geargy, Griggs, IJonkins, Judd, Loudon, Murray, Palmer, Stevens, Stone and Stockwcli. An invitation was conveyed to tho executive by Mrs. Lawson from the Plunket Mothers' Club to a card evening in October of which Mrs. Corkill is con vener. 1