MATERNITY CASES.
BETTER PROVISION NEEDED. (BY TELEGRAP&-~rKESS ASSOCIATION.) DANNEVIRKE, June 12. Speaking at a conference with the Waipawa Hospital Board, Dr. Valintine, Director-General of Hospitals, said that nothing called for more attention on the part of, hospital boards than the question of the erection of maternity homes in connection with the hospitals of the Dominion. L was now the policy of the Department to encourage boards to erect maternity hospitals in connection with their institutions. It was high time something tangible was done to meet the needs of maternity. The birth rate was low, and nothing to what it ought to be. The Department had in view the extinguishing of all private maternity hospitals in favour of institutions controlled by hospital boards. Unfortunately, maternity was by some people considered a disease, hut'it was only a natural process, and therefore it was necessary to have thoroughly up-to-date hospitals where women could feel that they were receiving proper attention.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 11
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157MATERNITY CASES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 11
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