HOSPITAL MATRONS’ CONFERENCE
ADDRESS BY DR. WATT.
WELLINGTON, April 9
The Minister for Health (the Hon. Mr Stallworthy), the chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board (Mr C. M. Luke), and the Acting Director General of Health (Dr Watt) visited the conference of hospital matrons to-day. Mr Stallworthy assured the conference they would have the sympathy of his Department. Dr. Watt said he hoped the conference would give careful consideration to the training of midwives. While Xew Zealand had too heavy a maternal death-rate, the Act of 1925 was a step in the right direction. The Act provided for the training of midwives who were able to take maternity cases without a doctor, and for maternity nurses who acted only under a doctor’s orders. The Act was based on the practice of countries such as Holland, which had the lowest maternal mortality in the world. There the midwife had a three years’ course and the maternity nurse 18 months. We had not yet reached that standard in New Zealand. Dr. Watt said ho hoped that in the future every nurse might be able to take a six months’ maternity course in the fourth year. ____
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1929, Page 2
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