CHILD WELFARE
DR TRUBY KING’S APPOINTMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, January 14. Dr Truby King will take up his new duties as head of the Department of Child Welfare under the Ministry of Education at the end of February. No more important reform, saj-s Mr Parr, in respect to the health of the community has ever been initiated. It will bo a campaign to carry knowledge to the children, and more particularly to the young mothers of the nation. The underlying idea is that prevention is better than cure. Dr King will preach the gospel of health. Ignorance is the great enemy to-day. Thousands of young children die from preventive causes, and the hospitals and clinics are filled with patients who need never have gone there. Dr King’s position will be a rather unique one. He will be a sort of Director-general of Child Welfare Of course, his new department will work with the Public Health Department, and will consult with the health officers and the education officers from time to time, but Dr King will be directly responsible to the Minister, The movement will begin in Wellington, and will bo conducted throughout the dominion. The first publio meeting will be held in Wellington, and then Dr King will travel through the dominion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 51
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214CHILD WELFARE Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 51
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