MATERNAL MORTALITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20793, 12 August 1929, Page 9

MATERNAL MORTALITY

REDUCTION IN BRITAIN. A NATIONAL SCHEME. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, August 9. (Received August 11, at 5.5 p.m.) The British Medical Association has prepared an important memorandum in favour of a national maternity scheme in England and Wales, by which a doctor and a midwife are assured to every mother giving birth to a child, while pre-natal and post-natal treatment will also bo assured, which will greatly reduce mortality. The scheme not' only covers women insured in national health schemes and wives of insured men, but all women will have a similar economic status. The estimated cost is £2,100,000 a year, of which £1.250,000 will be paid to midwivea and £560,000 to doctors. There are 750,000 maternity cases at the present time under national insurance. • It is proposed that the extra cost will he covered by an additional 4d a week from the employer or the woman herself, plus 2d from the State.—Australian Press Association.