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.
Plunket
Events In History
Women Together
Royal New Zealand Plunket Society
'Plunket', as the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society came to be popularly known, became a household word in New Zealand. Read the full Women Together Essay
Biographies
Dr Frederic Truby King provided the impetus for The Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, commonly known as the Plunket Society.
Main image: Home of Compassion, Island Bay
Mother Mary Joseph Aubert (at centre right) and several Sisters of Compassion with some of their 'foundling' orphan and foster children outside the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington, 1908.
