PROTECTION OF INFANT LIFE.
Per Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. A deputation of ladies waited on the Minister of Public Health to-day and urged the need for further protecting infant life. The members of the deputation preferred a request that the State sjmuld subsidise a doctor to attend poor mothers free of charge. In support of this vloa a distressing case was quoted—ihat of a poor woman who died in child-birth and left four orphans absolutely unprovided fnv. In reply, the Minister said there vas no chance of anything being done in the direction indicated th : s year. Next year there would bo a Hospital Bill, and it would be for Parliament to consider how far it could go. He did not think there was a single case where medical aid would be wanting if it was asked for.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 October 1907, Page 2
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138PROTECTION OF INFANT LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 October 1907, Page 2
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