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instruction, advice, and assistance, gratis, to any 

 member of the community desiring such services, on 

 matters affecting the health and well-being of women, 

 especially during pregnancy and while nursing infants, 

 and on matters affecting the health and well-being of 

 their children ; and also to endeavour to educate and 

 help parents and others in a practical way in domestic 

 hygiene in general all these things being done with 

 a view to conserving the health and strength of the 

 rising generation, and rendering both mother and 

 offspring hardy, healthy, and resistive to disease. 



(4) To promote legislative reform in matters 

 pertaining to the health of women and children. 



(5) To co-operate with any present or future 

 organizations which may be engaged in furthering 

 the foregoing or cognate objects. 



How far these aims and objects have been realized 

 may be inferred from the account of the work and 

 expansion of the Society contained in the Annual 

 Report of the parent branch at Dunedin issued last 

 April. The report shows that this one branch has 

 a roll of contributing members numbering 650, and 

 that it expended in the course of last year some 

 ,1,500 in the service of parenthood, yet the 

 community doubted only six years ago whether it 

 could support a single nurse devoted solely to the 

 health of mother and child. This report will be 

 supplied to anyone interested, on application to the 

 National Association for the Prevention of Infant 

 Mortality, at 4, Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 



In the short time and space at my disposal, I 

 can only summarize a few of the special and the 

 leading features of our organization. The Association 

 was started as a Society for mutual helpfulness and 

 mutual education, with a full recognition of the fact, 

 that so far as motherhood and babyhood were con- 

 cerned, there was as much need for practical reform 

 and " going to school " on the part of the cultured 



