MATERNITY BENEFITS
OTAGO-SOUTH LAND PAYMENTS By Telegraph-Pi ess Association DUNEDIN. June 22. In the Otago-Southland medical district to date 130 births have been paid for under the maternity xnefits, involving payment of £1094. Births in the district number about 75 weekly so that the approximate weekly bill would be £825. HOSPITAL FACILITIES By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. Nearly all the maternity hospitals in Christchurch are now available to patients under the Social Security maternity benefits scheme. At first private hospitals did not sign contracts with the State, but since then correspondence has passed between them and the Minister of Health, and the situation has changed so that it is now possible in almost every institution for patients to avail themselves of the benefits.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 10
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