Maternal Mortality and Scheme for a National Maternity Service (interim report)
1929-11 1929 1920s 12 pages - 3 - (iv) Reporting any sanitary defects in the home to the Medical Officer of Health. (v) When advised by the medical officer or desired by the mother, making preliminary arrangements for the patient's admission to a municipal maternity home or hospital. 8...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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November 1929
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/4CC6BBC2-8A56-4C2E-87C4-484E9759F22A http://hdl.handle.net/10796/3243B363-D9ED-40D0-9898-562D70967FEA |
| Summary: | 1929-11
1929
1920s
12 pages
- 3 - (iv) Reporting any sanitary defects in the home to the Medical Officer of Health. (v) When advised by the medical officer or desired by the mother, making preliminary arrangements for the patient's admission to a municipal maternity home or hospital. 8.(b) In relation to the medical officer of the clinic: Assisting the medical officer during consultations and otherwise N.B. In no circumstances should Health Visitors be required to work under the direction of a doctor who is not himself an officer of the Local Authority. 9.(c) In relation to the midwife: Becoming acquainted and maintaining friendly relations with all midwives practising in the district for which the health visitor is responsible. This will include welcoming the midwife to the clinic with her patients. 10. Popularising the clinics Health visitors and midwives, working in cooperation, are the most effective agents for popularising attendance at ante-natal clinics. In the large majority of cases, where the expected confinement is not the mother's first, the health visitor, in the course of her visits to other members of the family, knows long before the midwife that the mother is pregnant. Having already won the mother's confidence, the health visitor's advice to attend the clinic will usually be followed. Where the confinement is the first, however, the health visitor is dependent for information of the pregnancy on: (a) the expectant mother herself. (b) her relatives and friends. (c) the midwife. The cooperation of the midwife is therefore essential, both in introducing the health visitor to those mothers who are expecting their first babies, and in encouraging both them and other patients to attend the clinic.
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