Report on maternity insurance
1927 1927 1920s 16 pages 8 4. Maternity Benefit, i.e., payment of the sum of £2 on the confinement of an insured woman, or the wife of an insured man. (A total sum of £4 is payable in the case of a married woman who is, or has, recently herself been an employed contributor ; th...
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8 4. Maternity Benefit, i.e., payment of the sum of £2 on the confinement of an insured woman, or the wife of an insured man. (A total sum of £4 is payable in the case of a married woman who is, or has, recently herself been an employed contributor ; these cases account for 25 per cent. of the whole number of payments to married women). The actual average rate being paid since the Second Valuation is, men and women 46s. 5. Additional benefits, which may be provided by an Approved Society having a disposable surplus on valuation, and may take the form of either an increase in the normal cash benefits, as indicated above, or of payment towards the cost of various forms of treatment, such as dental, ophthalmic, hospital, or convalescent home treatment. It will be seen that only one of these benefits is specially directed towards maternity, and treatment during confinement is specifically ruled out of the duties of the Panel Doctor. The other benefits provide medical care and treatment during sickness and, therefore, incidentally during pregnancy, whilst it will be seen that the great majority of married women and a large number of unmarried are in receipt of maternity money grant under the Act. (702,500 married women, of whom 166,500 are in receipt of double maternity benefit, and 15,000 unmarried women.)* In practice it is found that the money grant is, in most cases, absorbed in payment to doctor and midwife, and it must be borne in mind that the National Health Insurance Act has no direct bearing on the problem of maternal sickness and mortality, which can only be satisfactorily met by supervision, extending from the early ante-natal period till some weeks after the birth of the child. MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY IN 1925. Before coming to proposals which have been put forward for perfecting the maternity services, the need for extension must be considered. This is best done by reference to the official reports which bear on maternal and infant mortality. The last report of Sir George Newman, 1926, gives the proportion of deaths per 1,000 births of infants under one month old as 32.53. His tables show that "since 1881 the reduction has affected mainly the age period three to twelve months." *Third Report of Departmental Actuarial Committee, page 382.
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