TRAGEDY AVERTED

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 4

TRAGEDY AVERTED

WORK OF PLUNKET NTJRSES. “The doctor .did nbh . believe in the Plunket nurses, and he has been giving the baby different artificial 'foods to see which suited her says the “New Zealand Herald/’ was part of the history of a baby taken bv a mother in despair to the Karitane Hospital at Mount Albert, Auckland, a month ago. The little one was three months old at theytime, and had gone back over a poundi in weight since birth, the unfortunate little victim of a mother’s inex- | perience and a doctor’s experimenting. | So emaciated did the child become, sc worried the motbei. that at last she took matters into her own hands, without a word to the doctor “who did* not believe in the Plunket nurses,” she hurried the infant off to Mount Albert. The child is well again, and a source of pride instead of anxiety. The same old storv. No bad intention ■ —quite the contrary. Just blundering. That is what the Karitane Hospital exists to correct. It is what the Plunket nursing system exists to prevent. Has Wellington a Plunket nursing system? It has. Has Wellington a Karitane Hospital, like Dunedin, and Christchurch and Auckland ? It has not. Does it need one? It does. Will it have one? That is for yon to eav. Put in your good word and your contribution. 'Secretary. Mr H. Amos, P.O. Bex 1261. Treasurer. Mr G. Springhalt Box 678.