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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume II, Issue 1, 1 January 1909, Page V

places where the tnidwives registered when the Act was passed are failing and giving up work owing to age and infirmity, and where suitable places can be found for midwives trained m the State maternity hospitals who are willing to go and work where they are so much needed. Miss Bagley found four centres at least m this part of the country from which nurses could work with a fair prospect of doing well, and four of the nurses trained and now training m St. Helens, Dunedin, are seriously considering the advisability of establishing themselves m these places. The thorough inspection of midwives m other parts of New Zealand will follow m due course. During the course of a visit to a registered midwife the inspector endeavoured to impart a little elementary instruction as to hygiene, obstretical cleanliness, and where the midwife does not already know, the taking of temperatures and, perhaps, something of their significance. This is a wide and seemingly hopeless endeavour, but if here and there one woman m whose hands these issues of life and death often lie is taught even one or two points m regard to her work, of which she is ignorant, it may be the means of saving life m the future. When the system of back blocks nursing, so near the heart of the Inspector General of Hospitals, is fairly established, this means of instruction will be largely augmented.