DR. TRUBY KING’S MISSION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 5

DR. TRUBY KING’S MISSION.

The following' extract from an article which appeared in a recent issue of Overseas will be read with interest:—

The Overseas Chib may congratulate themselves on having given birth to bo lusty an infant as the Babies of tha Empire Society. It promises to be one of the most important contributions to that social reconstruction to which everybody is now pledged. A meeting held at the Mansion House, with the Lord Mayor in the chair, on December 17 last, might lie described without exaggeration as electric. The speech of the afternoon was certainly that of Dr. Trilby King. As one of my friends who heard him for the first time said afterwards, his s)«ech was that of an inspired prophet, wonderful in its entire absence of sel f-comsciousnoss and for the breath of a higher world which animated his lightest word. His demonstration of 1 lie falling birth-rate in all civilised con nines and his reminder of the all too high percentage of deaths amongst; infants roused the dost and deepest feelings of his audience Such a man might well be compared ns an apostle with Peter the Hermit, whose fiery orations roused Europe to a great crusade against the unspeakable Turk. For Dr. Truby King has within him all the power requisite for stirring the consciences of the English-speaking world, to the iniquities it is perpetrating in its hideous neglect of the rights of infants to health and happiness. It is much to be hoped that the babies of the Empire mav lie allowed to retain the services of Dr. Truby King for an. indefinite period. '.So problem jh more pressing than that concerned with the interests of our infants, and no one man is better qualified than this famous KenZeal and doctor to rouse the British people to the sense of their duty.