MATERNITY WARDS.
! AT PUBLIC HOSPITALS. DR. TRUBY KING OPPOSES. (By Telegraph.—Special to -'Star. ,- ) WELLINGTON, this day. "I do not think any girl would be anxious to marry if she had to look forward to her children being born in i a public hospital with all its unnerving j associations. It should be an intimate | and natural function taking place in j the wife's own home where there would be no danger if all proper precautions were taken." These sentiments were given expression by Dr. Truby King at the Plunket Society conference when j the proposal for the establishment of/| maternity wards at all public hospitals was under discussion. The proposal it seemed to him. was a step in the wrons direction. "What wa3 wanted was not more but less hospitalisation in | connection with maternity. -More good , would be effected toy spending £12.000 on training the 1400 mid-wives now practising, than in sinking half a "mil" lion in 'bricks and mortar for setting up I wards in the four centres. Maternity ; hospitals might be established, but this would be primarily for the purpose of i training nurses.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 212, 6 September 1924, Page 6
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