PLUNKET SOCIETY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 June 1926, Page 3

PLUNKET SOCIETY.

O.OVERNAIENT ASSISTANCE. By Telegraph Press Association WELLINGTON, Juno 22 at tfio annual meeting <jf the P|,,,i Uet Society, the A. Young" Minister of Health, said tho IVomie.’ had agreed to gr.-s the Society £15.000 immediately he was asked, mid later a -to. 2j >ooo was to be considered. Ihey had a very good friend in AllCoates. He congratulated AVellington cn building the first Kant,-mo Hospital: all. others had been converted from existing buildings, and wore not always suitable. Dunedin had the lowest infant mortality in the world, and the Society could claim the credit. Mr Kirkcaldie, president of the Citizens’ Committee, said ho was bitterly disappointed with the result of the appeal for .£25,000 for the hospital; only £15,000 was raised, and lie lei’ approaching the Government for help. Sir Irubv King said the committee had done great service in collecting funds in AVellington. Since Nov. 1924, of 104 children treated, not a singlo one had died. It was a great record tor tho nurses, hut the strain on t-licm was too great. He laid stress on'tho need for-more ante-natal work among mothers. He expected before long to see the infantile death rate reduced to 3 and then to 2 per cent.