MIDWIVES
Sir,—We the mothers of New Zealand, certainly owe Dr. A. M. Hartnell a vote of thanks for opening up a much vexed and long overdue revision of the part-time midwives' remuneration. This is 1945, not slump time. Thirty-six hours with four journeys for treatment in the day and days of labour for £1 is worse than slavery. I am disgusted with the treatment to our midwives. We have been asked to populate or perish. I ask, at whose expense? In case of an epidemic or any infection in an expectant mother's home, would she be admitted to a public nursing home? If not, in the existing circumstances, who would care for her? The above remuneration savours of the time when the laundress in the Christchurch Public Hospital received a higher salary a year than the lady superintendent. Give me my own home every time. —Yours, etc., A MOTHER OF SEVEN. July 31, 1945.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24633, 1 August 1945, Page 8
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