Draft precis of evidence to be given before the Departmental Committee on Midwives
1928-09 1928 1920s 6 pages 5. 20. The Local Authority should pay a salary and provide suitable lodgings and transport. The value of those should be taken into account in drawing up scales of salaries. It is advisable that two midwives should live together in order that the one may replace the other...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
|---|---|
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
September 1928
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/0CF1D525-6B5E-4CAC-8548-D817571982FE http://hdl.handle.net/10796/356F1CB4-DE0C-4FA2-BD54-0CC5A47EDDE0 |
| Summary: | 1928-09
1928
1920s
6 pages
5. 20. The Local Authority should pay a salary and provide suitable lodgings and transport. The value of those should be taken into account in drawing up scales of salaries. It is advisable that two midwives should live together in order that the one may replace the other on emergencies and also to give some reasonable time off without continuous anxiety. 21. Holidays should be the same as those of professional workers in the employment of a municipality and should not be less than 24 working days a month. 22. We think it advisable that sterilised outfits should be supplied for the use of patients as is already done by some authorities. 23. With regard to nursing our view is that the midwife would supply the necessary skilled attention and that the other attendance upon the mother such as keeping her and her room tidy and providing her meals should be carried out by a Home Help properly qualified for such work whose duty it would also be to look after the house, the husband and other children. This Home Help would probably not need to live in but would come every day. Such home helps should be provided by the Local Authority to carry out this work and in cases where the mother goes into a Hospital or Home it is most important that this service be available to care for the family left at home. One of the reasons why women often insist on being confined under unsuitable conditions or without skilled hospital care, is reluctance to leave their children without anyone at home. 24. We recognise that it must take some time before this full service can be instituted but we believe that if immediate efforts were made to deal with its organisation and provide for the training of doctors and midwives on an adequate scale every mother could be sure within a few years' time of having skilled medical and nursing care. 25. The incidence of the cost of the schemes here outlined may be thus summarised:- Salaries, training etc. of Midwives... Local Health Authorities. Payments from National Health Insurance Funds. For those who are not insured and whose incomes are above the Insurance level, payments should be made to the Local Health Authority. (? Board of Education.) Salaries and Organisation of Home Helps... Local Health Authorities. Payment by individuals at fixed scale where circumstances permit. Cost of Sterilised Outfits... Local Health Authority. Payments to Doctors... National Health Insurance Funds under Reinsurance Scheme. Where patient not insured and income below the insurance level, same payment to be made by Local Health Authority and recoverable from patients above insurance level according to fixed scale. All payments made by Local Health Authority to rank for grants from Ministry of Health on a generous scale of not less than 50%.
292/824/1/116 |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | TEXT |