. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. edical superintendent of one of the large mentalhospitals. Dr. King had observed great neglect ofproper infant feeding, and therefore, great loss ofinfant life, and determined that something must bedone to educate the women of New Zealand in thisdirection. A babies hospital was established inDunedin, called the Karitane Home for Infants, andbabies suffering especially from malnutrition werereceived there. A carefully worked out form o
. A history of nursing; the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. edical superintendent of one of the large mentalhospitals. Dr. King had observed great neglect ofproper infant feeding, and therefore, great loss ofinfant life, and determined that something must bedone to educate the women of New Zealand in thisdirection. A babies hospital was established inDunedin, called the Karitane Home for Infants, andbabies suffering especially from malnutrition werereceived there. A carefully worked out form of per-centage feeding and preparation of humanised milkwas instituted under the direction of Dr. King, andnurses were taken for a special course of post-graduatetraining for three months. Branches of the societywere formed in different cities and nurses sent forinstruction, and then to take up Plunket nursing;namely, the visiting and advising of mothers on theproper care of their infants, teaching the preparationof humanised milk when the babies were not breast-fed, and general home hygiene. There are ten totwelve nurses engaged in this work. A subsidy is. K K
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