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Scales, Baby, Plunket

Scales, Baby, Plunket

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A set of scales for weighing children from the Riverton Plunket, to help parents understand and know how well their children develop. The cradle, for weighing infants, can be removed so that older children can stand on the platform to be weighed. Babies were brought to Plunket rooms to be weighed, and the measurements were recorded in the baby's personal Plunket book. In the earlier days of the Society, Plunket nurses would cycle to the mother's home and weigh the baby with portable scales. The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society: Sir Frederick Truby King founded the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children in 1907 in an effort to improve childcare standards, and it is still active today. It is, however, more commonly known as Plunket, after Lady Victoria Plunket, wife of the Governor of New Zealand at the time of the Society's establishment and a great supporter of King's work. In 1980, the Society officially changed its name to the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.

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