CHAIR OF MIDWIFERY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12

CHAIR OF MIDWIFERY

DUNEDIN’S CLAIMS

Dominion Special Service.

Dunedin. February 25.

Commenting editorially on the representations which the medical graduates of New Zealand have decided to make to the Government respecting improved facilities for midwifery training, the “Otago Daily Times” urges that it is in the interests of the Dominion as a whole that the Otago Medical School should be made as efficient as possible. _ Proceeding, the article says: “It is especially in the interests of the women of the Dominion, who are to be the mothers of future generations, that the training of her medical students should be so thorough in the important subject of obstetrics as to afford them cause for implicit confidence in the New Zealand graduates. The difficulties that have been encountered in the past, would, in a large measure, be overcome if an obstetric hosnital were made an jidjnnct of the medical school, and it is surely clear that there should be such an adjunct to the school. The University Council last week adopted n recommendation, for the establishment of a chair of midwifery, and has thus definitely organised a department of obstetrics in connection with the medical school. The establishment of nn obstetric hosnital would place this rlonnrtment nnon the footing .which it should nooppy in a national school of medicine.”