Lectures to Untrained Registered Midwives

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume 01, Issue 4, 1 October 1908, Page 134

Lectures to Untrained Registered Midwives

It has been arranged by the Registrar of midwives that a series of elementary lectures to the untrained women, registered on their past experience of three years' practice, after the Midwives' Act, October 1904, was passed, should be delivered in the four chief centres of the Dominion. This has now been done in Auckland by Dr. Robertson, and a second course is in progress by Dr. Lindsay. A large number of women availed themselves of the instruction, which should be of great help to them in their work. A great many of the applicants to attend the lectures were women acting as monthly nurses under doctors, and they were en-

couraged to attend in the hope that their eyes would be opened to the dangers of such work without proper training. A course is now taking place in Dunedin, and one in Christchurch, given by Drs. Church and Talbot respectively. Dr. Rawson will shortly commence one in Wellington. The midwife inspectors will be able to amplify the instruction, and give many useful nursing points to those who are anxious to learn. Although the lectures are primarily intended for untrained women, no trained midwifery nurse need feel that she may not also learn something from them, and perhaps her memory may be refreshed on many points.