MATERNITY HOMES
EFFECT OF NEW REGULATIONS MAY HAVE TO CLOSE DOWN (Per United Press Association) INVERCARGILL, July 2. The possibility of three maternity homes in Invercargill closing in September because of the new Private Hospitals (Hours of Work) Regulations was mentioned by Invercargill doctors and nurses when inquiries were made. The provision of other accommodation for maternity cases would, it was stated, become an extremely difficult problem. From September 1 the weekly hours of work of nursing staffs are to be reduced to 48, inclusive of meal times. The effect of this regulation is that staffs will have to be increased, but as this is declared to be impossible because of the acute shortage of nurses and probationers, maternity homes will be forced to close down.
It was emphasised, by one nurse that their inability to carry on would be due not so much to increased costs, which could be passed on, as to the impossibility of securing additional nurses. Three Invercargill homes deal with 350 patients a year between them, and if these 350 cases, now treated in private maternity hospitals, are deprived of that accommodation, a very difficult situation will be created.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23542, 4 July 1938, Page 5
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194MATERNITY HOMES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23542, 4 July 1938, Page 5
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