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Plunket, n.2 N.Z.|ˈplʌŋkɪt|
The name of Lady Plunket, wife of the Governor-General of New Zealand 1904–10 (see quot. 1938), used attrib. and absol. (with reference to the Plunket Society, a popular name for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children), to designate a nurse trained in the methods of child feeding and care advocated by this society, a baby reared according to these methods, or a clinic following them.
1909Ann. Rep. Soc. for Promotion of Health of Women & Children No. 1. 9 The doctor was pleased to have the assistance of the Plunket nurse, and at once consented to the children being fed on humanised milk. 1938H. C. D. Somerset Littledene vii. 69 The Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children..commonly called the Plunket Society from the name of its first president, Lady Plunket, was founded by Dr. Truby King in 1907. 1941S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 58 No record..would be complete without reference to the famed organization, the Plunket Society. For the past twenty years or more it has been known as the Plunket. 1944F. L. W. Wood Understanding N.Z. iv. 48 The town will have..Plunket rooms (baby clinics). Ibid. ix. 130 Nearly three-quarters of the children born in New Zealand become ‘Plunket babies’. 1945R. M. Burdon N.Z. Notables II. ii. 41 By 1913..twenty-seven trained Plunket nurses were working from their appointed centres. 1958N.Z. News 11 Mar. 3/1 In 1912, the Government gave him [sc. Truby King] six months' leave of absence to preach the movement throughout the country, and the number of ‘Plunket’ nurses rapidly multiplied. 1960S. Ashton-Warner Incense to Idols 80 Organize societies for crippled children and the intellectually handicapped, Plunket for the babies, Heritage for the care of War Orphans. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral & N.Z. viii. 173 A New Zealander is likely to begin life as a ‘Plunket baby’. His mother is visited periodically by the Plunket nurse from the Plunket Society, founded by Sir Truby King as an early experiment in socially supervised child care and named after the wife of the then Governor-General. |