TRIBUTE FROM CANADA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 8

TRIBUTE FROM CANADA

“New Zealand’s newspapers arc congratulating themselves and everyone . else in the sister Dominion on the recent disclosures of their Statistical Department,” remarked the Toronto Mau , and Empire recently. “These show that the health of the people there has , not been injured to any appreciable . extent by the financial depression. As New Zealand had for flic period 1927- ' 1931 the lowest death rate in the world. ’ the further fall recorded is all the I more noteworthy. The rate for infant i mortality has also been the lowest on l record, again remarkable as an im- ■ provement on a record figure for the 1 world. At a time when Canada and ’ this city are still under the stigma of 1 a high maternal ami infant death rate, • these figures come with striking force. ■ They piont undoubtedly to the fact t that the artificial methods, in which too 1 many members of the medical and nurs- ■ ing profession have been trusting, have • proved broken reeds. New Zealand in ’ her time of stress is finding the value l of having followed the advice and : practice of Sir Tenby King and his Plunket nurses, whose motto is: ‘Everything simple and natural in connection with childbirth and child feeding-’ ”