BACKBLOCK NURSES.
PROVISION TO BE MADE. (By Telearioh—Vsess Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Replying to Mr Stathain in tlio House of Representatives to-day, the Minister of Health said the question of encouraging mid-wives to practise in the backblocks had been a subject of . considerable consideration on tho part of the Department, and Hospital Boards had advised that free training would be given in the St. Helens Hospitals to those women specially recommended by Boards as likely to mako suitable, midwives. provided they engage, on the completion of their training, to serve for a stated period in the more remote country districts. It is considered that this policy Is a better one thjin to insist, on a six months' extension of tho period of training for midwives, which is now for registered nurses six months and for unregistered nurses twelvo months. Tf the additional six months' course were insisted upon, it might have the -effect of deterring many excellent women, trained or untrained, fro-m undertaking the work, and thus mifxht re«ulfc in a shortage of mid-1 \viVes for the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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178BACKBLOCK NURSES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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