NEW KARITANE HOSPITAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 15

NEW KARITANE HOSPITAL

NEARLY £7OOO SUBSCRIBED It says much for the generosity and common sense of local citizens who have the welfare of children at heart that of the £20,000 required to rebuild the Karitane Hospital at Anderson's Bay, nearly £7OOO has already been subscribed. When the hospital was first established, by far the greatest number, admitted were sick babies, but it was ever the society's ideal that infantile ailments and failure to thrive, so much of which was preventable, should be prevented by the education of the prospective and actual mothers of the face. Hence the formation of the Plunket Society. The society's main aim has always been to establish and maintain health, rather than merely to lower the infant mortality rate, and although there has been a great saving of infant life since the inception of the Plunket Society, this is a minor matter compared with the better health, strength, and vitality of the survivors. It will be an appropriate gesture to Sir Truby King's magnificent work if the Anderson's Bay home, the birthplace of his scheme, were made a model institution for the care and treatment of the physically sick baby and for the Dominion's foremost school for the training of Plunket and Karitane nurses. Further advantages will accrue if the necessary finance is raised for the hospital. Not only will the demand for baby accommodation be satisfied, but more nurses will graduate from the hospital to broadcast the system to the outside world. Donations can be sent care Otago Daily Times, left at Plunket Rooms in city or suburbs, or given to any Plunket nurse. No donation is too small.