TRAINING OF MIDWIVES
HOSPITAL MATRONS CONFER Press Association < WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, accompanied by the chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board, Mr. C. M. Luke, and the act-mg-Director-General of Health, Dr. Watt, attended the conference of hos- | pital matrons to-day. Mr. Stall worthy assured the delegates that 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 New 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. It was based on the practice of countries such as Holland, which had the lowest maternal mortality rate in the world. There the midwife had a three years’ course and the maternity nurse 18 months. They had not yet reached that standard in New Zealand. Dr. Watt said he 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 6
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