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this periodical medical inspection and should give 

 advice as to the maintenance of health. If these 

 measures were generally adopted I am sure that 

 they would have a great effect in the prevention of 

 disease. 



(There was no discussion on the paper.) 



THE NEW ZEALAND SCHEME FOR PRO- 

 MOTING THE HEALTH OF WOMEN 

 AND CHILDREN. 



BY F. TRUBY KING, M.B., B.Sc. (PUBLIC HEALTH) EDIN. 



Rttles Scholar; Member of the Psychological Association; Lecturer on Mental Diseases, 

 Otago University; President of the Society for the Health of Women and Children, 

 New Zealand. 



" Every woman in England has, at one time or another of 

 her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether 

 child or invalid in ; other words, every woman must become a 

 nurse. . . . The knowing what are the laws of life and 

 death for men, and what the laws of health for houses (and 

 houses are healthy or unhealthy, mainly according to the know- 

 ledge or ignorance of the woman), are not these matters of 

 sufficient importance and difficulty to require learning by 

 experience and careful inquiry, just as much as any other art ? 

 They do not come by inspiration to the loving heart. . . . and 

 terrible is the injury which has followed from such wild notions." 

 (From " Notes on Nursing, for the Working Classes," by 

 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, published half a century ago!) 



THERE exists throughout New Zealand an organiza- 

 tion known as the Society for the Health of Women 

 and Children, which has established branches in 

 some seventy centres. These branches are presided 

 over by local executive committees, numbering 

 from fifteen to thirty members each, and embrace 

 a very large, earnest, and influential membership roll, 

 representative of the motherhood of the Dominion. 



The Society has gradually come to be looked 

 to by all classes, and by the Government itself, 

 as the recognized authority and referee in the 



