B.M.A. PROPOSAL
>TATE-AIDI?D MATERNITY HOME. (United Preas Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ' - '' - LONDON, August 9. .' fLe ' British Medical Association has prepared an important memorandum in favour of a national maternity scheme in England- and Wales, whereby, a' doctor and a midwife are to be assured to every mother giving birth to a child, and . also pre-natal and postnatal treatment, which will greatly reduce mortality. ihe scheme not only covers ? the women insured under national health schemes and the wives of the insured men* but all women will have a similar economic status! •ybri ol . .which £l2fi,OOo-,go to the doctors:. , 1 There are 750,500 maternity cases at the present time under the National insurance^scheme*- T«*V... -• It is proposed that the extra cost will be covered by an additional foulr pence weekly from the employer of the woman herself, plus twopence from the State. ,‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1929, Page 3
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141B.M.A. PROPOSAL Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1929, Page 3
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