MATERNITY HOSPITALS.
LABOUR PARTY'S RESOLUTION.
WELLINGTON, June 8
The following resolution has been passed by the national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party: "That the national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party deeply deplores the state of affairs revealed in the report of the Kelvin Maternity Home Commission and considers that such is far from creditable either to the Health Department or to the medical profession. The executive considers that if is regrettable and highly reprehensible that while the Health 'Department, under the administration of several Ministers, was fully aware of the high death rate caused by outbreaks of puerperal septicaemia in private maternity hospitals over a long period, it took no steps towards the effective control until the lives of so many mothers were sacrificed. It further declares that the time has arrived for the establishment of adequate maternity hospitals, run under the best and niost efficient administration as part of the national system of medical service and maternity attention, whereby the disastrous element of private gain could be eliminated."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1037, 9 June 1924, Page 5
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