MATERNITY SCHEME.
A NATIONAL proposal. TO REDUCE MORTALITY. (Australian Pr<’«* \= s nciat!on.) LONDON, Aug. 10. The British Medical Association has prepared an important memorandum in favour of a national maternity scheme in England and Wales. Under this a doctor and a midwife would be assured to every mother giving birth to a child. The plan also provides for pre-natal and postal-natal treatment which would greatly reduce mortality. Not only docs the.scheme cover women insured under national health schemes and the wives of insured men, hut all women of a similar economic status. The estimaled cost is £2,100,000 a year, of which £1,250,000 would he paid to midwives and £550,000 to doctors. There are 750,000 maternity cases at present under the national insurance scheme.
The proposed extra cost would he. covered by an additional 4d a week from the employer or the woman herself, plus 2d a week from the State.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17787, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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