MIDWIVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 20 October 1910, Page 3

MIDWIVES.

The names of 1028 midwives are on the register, viz;., trained ' 283, untrained 745. Last year 74 trained midwives were registered, viz.; trained in St. Helens Hospitals, 42; trained in other maternity homes 10; admitted on oversea certificates 22. There were nine training schools for midwives in the Dominion. There were 883 patients treated in St. Helens Hospitals last year. There were 4 deaths, 899 babies were born alive, 13 babies were still-born and 4 babies died. Each baby born in the St. Helens Hospitals costs the country about £2.