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Society was founded in 1910 with the aim of providing practical, "scientifically designed" clothing for babies under one year of age. Mrs. Napier Birks was founding president and Miss Ethelwyne Goyder the secretary. Stirling was in charge of the garments, of which over 1,000 were
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Secretary, namely the too-speedy return of children to the conditions from which they had been rescued.
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convalescent hospital for soldiers, then relinquished by the army, was purchased by the state government, handed over to the Babies' Hospital
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in South Australia in January 1917, the fifth and sixth women so honoured in South Australia. The first four, appointed in July 1915, were:
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