ST. HELENS HOSPITAL.
THE TRAINING OF STUDENTS. OPPOSITION BY MAORIS. The proposal to permit midwifery students to bo trained at St. Helens Hospital has met with further opposition from the Akarana Maori Association. In a letter to tho Minister of Health, tho Hon. A. J. Stallworlhy, tho association states (hat apart from the obvious objection that such a policy was against tho privacy ;.nd, therefore, tho utility of the hospital, there was another important objection. In the past few years tho association, to help to check the undue maternal and infant mortality rate among Maoris, had been encouraging expectant Maori mothers to go to such institutions In persuading the Maori women to take that step tho association had emphasised the privacy of tho hospital. Tho establishment of a midwifery clinic at the institution would deter Maori women from goiijg there and would nullify the association's work for tho welfare'of the Maori race.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20629, 30 July 1930, Page 18
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152ST. HELENS HOSPITAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20629, 30 July 1930, Page 18
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