NEW MATERNITY SCHEME
TO LESSEN MORTALITY IN BRITAIN MEMORANDUM BY B.M.A. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. The British Medical Association has prepared an important memorandum in favour of a national maternity scheme in England and Wales. Under this a doctor and a midwife would be assured to every mother giving birth to a child. The plan also provides for pre-natal and post-natal treatment, which would greatly reduce mortality. Not only does the scheme cover women insured under national health schemes and the wives of insured men, but all women of a similar economic status. The estimated cost is £2,100,000 a year, of which £1,250,000 would be paid to midwives and £550,000 to doctors. There are 750,000 maternity cases at present under the national insurance scheme.
The proposed extra cost would be covered by an additional 4d a week from the employer or the woman herself, plus 2d a week from the State.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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