PLUNKET SOCIETY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 10 December 1938, Page 9

PLUNKET SOCIETY

APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL ADVISER DR. HELEN DEEM I Dotted Preßt» Asocial ton i DUNEDIN. 9th December. The Dominion council of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children announces the appointment of Dr. Helen Deem to the position of medical adviser to the council of the society. Dr. Deem qualified M. 8., Ch.B., (N.Z.) in 1925. To further her knowledge of infant welfare she later entered the Truby King-Harris Hospital in Dunedin and went through the complete course laid down for Plunket nurses and acquired a thorough knowledge of the Plunket system and the technique of baby management. Jn 1928, as Lady King Scholar for that year( she spent a year doing research

work on human milk and collected material for her doctorate thesis. In 1928 she obtained the degree of doctor of medicine. After holding several appointments in New Zealand, Dr. Deem went to England, where she did post-graduate maternal and infant welfare work, obtaining the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (England) in 1935. In 1938 she returned to New Zealand and was appointed School Medical Officer and assistant to the Medical Officer of Health in Hamilton, in which position she has been able to study the nutrition of the school child and the pre-school child, and has lectured to parents, teachers and nurses on dietetics, general health, and physical education. Dr. Deem is a daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Easterfield, of Nelson.