PLUNKET SOCIETY

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 September 1923, Page 3

PLUNKET SOCIETY

TIMARU BRANCH: The ordinary monthly meeting of the Timaru Plunket Society was held in the Council Chambers. There were present Airs Cray (in the chair) and Alesdames Jones, Irvine, j Hay j Thomson, Alason, Cave and Nurse Dunlop. Apologies were received from Mesdamos Oddie, Bell and Paterson. The nurses’ report showed an increase of 29 cases for the month. A total ot 290 mothers and babies had visited the office and the nurses had made 618 visits to homes. One visit had been made to Fairlie where fifteen mothers and babies called at the office. During October an appeal was made by circulars for more annual subscribers, but it did not meet with an encouraging response., A vote of thanks was passed to the 1 Borough Council for its annual donation.

Accounts, amounting to £47 10s, were passed for payin'ont. Subscriptions wore received with thanks from Alesdames Burrell, Bunt, Knott, Turner, Bracefield, AVilliams, Bray, : AleAYhirter, Mcßae and Yiniiell. The half-yearly conference with the branches was held at 2.30 p.m., when there were present (Airs Cray in the chair), Alesdames Tripp and Thompson (Geraldine), Airs Armitage (Tej mnka), and Alesdames Hay, Thomson, I Alason, .Tones, Webster, Holdgate, I Cave and Nurse Dunlop. Apologies acre received from Airs Gillingham (Eairlie), Mrs Alilne and Aliss Alaze (Pleasant Point), and Alesdames Paterson, Oddie and Bell (Timaru).

As Temuka has an additional nurse, and,the .Fairlie-Albury district a nurse of its own, the question .of boundaries was discussed and the work of the Timarn nurses will not be r.o scattered. The action of the registrars of the various districts, in notifying the Plunket nursoa of all births in trie districts was much .appreciated. Mrs Tripp suggested that the annual reports and balance sheets of all the South Canterbury branches should be published in pamphlet form, this to he decided in March.

It was considered a compliment to Plunket work in New Zealand that Australian nurses were coming to the Dominion to train. In the past the .Dunedin branch lias shouldered most of llie expense of maintaining the Kari-tane-Harris training hospital, and it was thought the time was not far distant when all branches would have to share the. cost.

Mrs Tripp moved that the Central Council should ho again reminded that the South Canterbury branches consider the time has arrived when Dr, Truly King’s name should be permanently associated with all Knritane baby hospitals throughout New Zealand.