Plunkett Service Badge

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Plunkett Service Badge

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Western Bay Museum

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Western Bay Museum

Description

This badge would have been given to a Plunket Nurse for service. Dr Frederic Truby King helped form the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children at a meeting in Dunedin Town Hall in 1907. The society, soon known as the Plunket Society after Lady Victoria Plunket, the wife of the governor and an ardent supporter, spread rapidly. Later that year, Plunket opened the first Karitane Home for Babies in Dunedin. A further six Karitane Hospitals were established to supplement ...

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Creator

Plunket

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https://ehive.com/collections/4456/objects/1874824

Related subjects

Childhood / Health / Award

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