MATERNITY HOSPITALS
INVESTIGATION PLANNED Difficulties in staffing maternity hospitals in the Dominion will be investigated by a committee which has been set up at the instigation of the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of New Zealand. It is the committee's plan to formulate short and long-term policies to meet this problem. Tire committee has the co-operation of the Health Department, and will begin sittings in Wellington on Tuesday. Later it wilj go to Auckland for a four-day session .starting on October, 15. No sittings will be held in the South Island, as it is considered that the evidence obtained in Wellington and Auckland will be sufficient, The members of the committee are Dr T. F, Corkill, of Wellington (chairman), the Director of Maternal Welfare, Dr Doris Gordon, Dr Mary Douglas, of Hamilton, Dr Helen Deem, of Wellington, representing the Plunket Society. Mrs M. J. Forde, of Wellington, representing the National Council of Women, and Miss H. Hamilton, of Wellington, representing the Trained Nurses’ Association of New. Zealand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26274, 4 October 1946, Page 2
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