TRAINING MIDWIVES

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1930, Page 11

TRAINING MIDWIVES

MOOTED CENTRALISATION. ’ A possibility that training- in midwifery might be confined in future to the four large centres was suggested in a communication received by the Waikato Hospital Board from the Health Department. In previous correspondence the Hospital Board had urged that the maternity ward being erected at the Waikato hospital should be used as a training school for midwives. The communication informed the board that it would be necessary to make application to the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Registration Board for a permit to give instruction in midwifery. The letter continued: “The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Registration Board is now living serious consideration to the question of cancelling its approval of all institutions as training schools for midwives, with the exception of three or four of the largest maternity institutions in the four centres. The .matter has not yet been finalised, although the proposals were -putJbcfore th? Hospital Boards’ Association and received full ami hearty approval. If this scheme eventuates the hospitals at Napier and Whangarei would, of course, be training schools for maternity nurses only.”

The medical superintendent, Dr. M. M. Hockin, said there was little- likelihood of the .Waikato hospital becoming d irgining ,-centre for midwives.