BIRTHS IN NEW ZEALAND.
* INTERESTING FIGURES. ■ WORK OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Some interesting figures relative to births In the Dominion were given by the Minister of Health, lion. J. A. Young, at Hamilton last night. The total births for 192 G were 28,473, representing approximately 28,100 confinements. Of these, 2154 were attended as in-patients in the St. Helens Hospitals; 3271 were attended in the public maternity hospitals or maternity wards attached to public hospitals under Hospitals Boards, and 11,000 were attended in private maternity hospitals or in maternity hospitals established by charitable and religious bodies. All the maternity hospitals in ttie Dominion, therefore, admitted 10,431 patients for their confinements, 11,739 were confined in private houses. Of these latter, 005 were attended as out-patients by the St. Helens Hospital midwives and maternity nurses, either by themselves, or in conjunction with the patient’s private medical attendant.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 6
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