PLUNKET SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1923, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly committee meeting of the Plunket Society was held in the Plunket Rooms, New Plymouth, on Monday last. Mrs. Home presided, and there were also present: Mesdames Roebuck, Loveridge, Wade, Fraser, Thomson, Avery, Ambury, Cock, West, Chapman, Jenkins, Blackley, Brodie, Hay and Mrs. Stuart Russell (hon. sec).

Nurse Castle reported for the month of May: Number of babies on list, (old) 286, (new) 14; breast-fed 13, supplemented 1; visits paid to homes (old cases) 170, (new) 99: visits received at office, adults 322, babies 316; advice to expectant mothers, 9; advice on general hygiene, 41; telephone calls, 34; letters received and answered 5; mothers shown how to make milk, 13; visits paid to Waitara, 4, Inglewood 5. Reports from house, car and finance committee were read and adopted. Mrs. Roebuck was appointed to the car committee and Mesdames West and Chapman to the general committee. Correspondence was read from several societies in the town, all stating that they were in full sympathy with the aims of the Plunket Society and would assist or co-operate in any effort made by the society to raise funds for the purchase of a Plunket House.

A letter from the president of the Wellington branch was read, stating. in reply to a letter received by her from the New Plymouth branch asking for information with reference to how Wanganui Karitane Homa was subsidised, that most mothers and babies from, the North Island received treatment at Karitane Wanganui Home, but that it was not subsidised from Dunedin, but that the expenses which all branches were being asked to share with Dunedin were those which accrued through the training of nurses. The meeting decided that as branches would still be required to meet nurses’ training fees, and that as a great effort was being made to obtain funds to enable the society to buy a suitable property, although in sympathy with the scheme as outlined by Mrs. Hoskin, at the present time it was impossible for this branch to participate in it.

The president reported that the accommodation provided at the Winter Show for mothers and babies had been well patronised. The committee decided that sewing bees for the making of garments for Baby Day should begin, on Tuesday next, June 19, at Mrs. Home’s house. The finance committee decided to send notices to all subscribers who have not yet paid their supbscriptions for 19231924.

The society acknowledges with thanks the following subscriptions: Mesdames Potts, West, Moore, Bridger, Robinson, Brenmer, Jeffrey, Fraser, Chapman, Hay, Allom, A. N. Avery, Grayson, Cartwright, Haine, Adam, Rolls, Putt, and Walls, 5/each, R. Standish £l, Blackley £l, Standish (senior) 10/-, Home £3/3/-, T. Avery £2, J. C. Nicholson £l, Maxwell £l/1/-, C. H. Baker 10/-.