NATIONAL SERVICE
MIDWIVES FOR BRITAIN:
Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, expressed the hope recently at Bristol that the new midwifery'service under the Midwives Act-would be in operation throughout Britain :by July next year, reports the "Daily Telegraph-.", •■ y; : ;■:■•:■■.■ •:.: :;.':;./ Every mother, he added, whatever her circumstances, would then be able to obtain the services of a qualified midwife^ * ■ In our pursuit of the ideal'^bf an Al nation, Sir Kingsley Wood said, a great deal' depended ;u'pon trie mothers of the race. He believed the,new Midwives Act would do much to help to secure it.
He was on the point of. communicating with local authorities asking them, to submit by the:end of. next January their proposals for the new midwifery1 service. . In a few areas it might not be possible to provide a complete service by July, but it was an urgent and important task, and it was desirable to bring the service into operation and produce results at the earliest possible date. - He also wanted to see the status of the midwifery profession raised to a proper level. There was every ground for holding that the scales of pay of salaried midwives should be on a par with those of other professional women engaged in comparable work, such as health visiting. He was communicating with the local authorities to that effect. Sir Kingsley Wood declared that the record in social reform of which they could be proudest in that country was their progress in child welfare. But they must go on constantly developing and extending. The great aim must be a child population, healthy, sound, properly nourished, properlf grown and developed. He hoped, he said, in the next session of Parliament to bring forward proposals for filling the gap, that at present existed in the medical supervision of a child between the time at which he left school to enter employment and when he commenced health insurance.
They must also do more to ensure tine systematic and periodical health visiting of all children up to the ago at which, they attend schooL
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 7
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342NATIONAL SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 7
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