MATERNITY HOMES.
ADJUNCTS TO HOSPITALS. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dannevirke, June 12. Speaking at a conference with the Waipawa Hospital Board, Dr. Valintine (Director-General of Hospitals) said that nothing called for more attention on the part of hospital board* ’than the question of the erection of maternity homes in connection with the hospitals of the Dominion. The new policy of the Department was to encourage boards to erect maternity hospitals in connection with their institutions. It was high time something tangible was done to meet the need* of maternity. The birth-rate was low and nothing like what it ought to be. The department had in view the extinguishing of all private maternitj’ hospitals in favour of institutions controlled by the hospital boards. Unfortunately maternity was by some people considered a disease, but it was only a natural process, and therefore it was necessary to have thoroughly up-to-date hospitals, where women would feel that they were receiving proper attention.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1924, Page 6
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