AN ARBITRARY PROVISION
The authority given to medical officers of health by the Nurses and Midwives Registration Bill to exercise supervision over maternity nurses and midwives was referred to by members of the Legislative Council yesterday as arbitrary.
The Hon. V. H. Kccd thought' it ■would inflict hardship on many nurses. Tho BiJl practically gave local Jhcdical 'officers of health complete jurisdiction over nurses and laid.wives
within their district, and enabled them to peremptorily suspend such women.
•. Tho Hon. M. Cohen considered thcro was'very good reason for the provision, for there had boon notorious eases in which hospital boards had appointed certain nurses after being warned : specifically against employing them. "
Tho Leader of tho Council (Sir Francis Boll) said it was extremely dosirable for nurses and midwives to be under very arbitrary control, and that was why the section had been included in the Act. It was impossible to deal with the matter effectively.' without being arbitrary.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 58, 5 September 1925, Page 7
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157AN ARBITRARY PROVISION Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 58, 5 September 1925, Page 7
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