A Public Health Gar

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 28

A Public Health Gar

Miss Fitzgerald (Director of the Nursing Department of the League of Red Cross Societies) told our representative recently that it is hoped before long to start in the rural districts of any country that may be determined upon what is called in America a "health mobile/' namely, a motor-car fitted up with a certain amount of equipment for demonstration and for clinical work. It will visit the rural districts, where the people have never had the advantages of a doctor or clinic or hospital, and will be manned by a doctor conversant with child welfare and anti-tuberculosis methods and principles, and by a nurse who will teach the nursing side of these subjects. Each car

wiill contain accommodation for eight mothers, who will be taught by practical demonstration how to bathe then*! babies. In winter dolls will be substituted for babies for this. Facilities will also be available for the weighing and examination of children. Accompanying each car wiill be a cinematograph apparatus for educational propaganda. Experiments on these lines have been very successful in the U.S.A., and as health "caravanning" the method is not altogether unknown in England. In some of the less advanced countries the rural districts have never yet been reached by any form of medical care or education. — From the "Nursing Mirror."