Memorandum on maternal mortality
1928-07 1928 1920s 10 pages - 2 - powers over the "handywoman", and provides for the registration (inspection) of maternity homes. (6) Notification of Births Act (1907) (adoptive) ) ) Applied (7) Notific...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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July 1928
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/9EBE882F-01A0-4726-BB9C-B0039C6E1186 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/5DF43DD7-BDA7-415D-8A34-0F431D7378D4 |
| Summary: | 1928-07
1928
1920s
10 pages
- 2 - powers over the "handywoman", and provides for the registration (inspection) of maternity homes. (6) Notification of Births Act (1907) (adoptive) ) ) Applied (7) Notification of Births Act (1915) (compulsory) ) to Borough Councils, Urban District Councils, and Rural District Councils, and made notification necessary within 36 hours of birth. Under the later Act, the Local Sanitary Authority may for the purpose of the care of expectant and nursing mothers exercise any of its powers under the Public Health Acts, namely, the provision of hospital treatment and nursing. This Act led to the appointment of Health Visitors by local Authorities. (8) Maternity and Child Welfare Act (1918) - compels the appointment by Local Authorities of a maternity and child welfare committee, of which two members must be women. It is adoptive only, in its main provision that a local Authority "may make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the local Government Board, for attending to the health of expectant and nursing mothers" and of children under five.["The establishment by any Local Authority of a general domiciliary service by medical practitioners" is expressly forbidden]. Under this Act provision can be made for - (a) Infant welfare and ante-natal clinics; (b) Municipal midwives; (c) Beds in local hospitals (d) Milk and meals for expectant mothers; (e) Facilities for convalescence; (f) Post-natal clinics; (g) Home helps; (h) Obstetric consultants. National Health Insurance. Maternity Benefit under the National Health Insurance scheme consists of a payment normally of 40/- on the confinement of the wife (or in the case of a posthumous child, of the widow) of an insured man, or on the confinement of a woman (whether married or unmarried) who is herself insured. The amount of the benefit is increased in the case of duly qualified members of Approved Societies which have schemes of additional benefits providing for such increase. The average rate of this benefit at the present time is 46/-.
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