MEDICAL ADVISER RETIRES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21004, 5 April 1938, Page 6

MEDICAL ADVISER RETIRES

Going Abroad to Study LOSS TO PLUNKET SOCIETY By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, April 4. At a meeting of the Council of the Plunket Society, Dr. Martin Tweed, of Wellington, tendered his resignation as medical adviser as from May 31, intimating, however, that as a voluntary worker he would continue his support. T ie resignation was accepted with sincere regret. Dr. Tweed, who is trustee of the late Sir Truby King, intends to proceed abroad at an early date to undertake post-graduate work and continue studies of infant welfare. He was born at. Ashburton and educated at the Huntly School, Marton, and Wellington College. Dr. Tweed studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital and the London University. Returning from active service. Dr. Tweed, in 1920, commenced practice at Carterton, and became intimately associated with Sir Truby King, and the work of the Plunket Society. The general conference of the Plunket Society, in 1930, appointed Dr. Tweed as successor to Sir Truby King in the office of honorary medical adviser to the Council In 1933 he became full-time medical adviser to the Dominion Council, and chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Tweed, who is an authority on dietetics and the prevention of physical defects in children, lias addressed various conferences and meetings on child welfare and mothercraft, and different aspects of national health and education. An Appreciation Miss Mary Truby King, daughter of the late Sir Truby King, in the course of an appreciation of Dr. Tweeds services says:—

“Dr. Tweed has for’ a great number of years been a loyal disciple of Tir Truby King and a staunch exponent of his methods. In all his work for the Plunket Society he has submerged his own personality and ideas in order better to proclaim those of Sir Truby King, and during Sir Truby’s declining years me might say he was the veritable mouthpiece of that great man. The Plunket Fociety was fortunate in obtaining as successor to Sir Truby King a medical practitioner willing to put the cause of mothers and babies before himself and there will be widespread regret that he has found it necessary to relinquish the position of medical adviser to the central council. During the period he held that position he fostered the very necessary and helpful co-operation between the Plunket Society and the medical men Lnd women of the Dominion.”