Memorandum on maternal mortality
1928-07 1928 1920s 10 pages - 3 - Maternity benefit is not payable until the person in respect of whose insurance it is clained [claimed] has been in insurance for 42 weeks and has paid 42 contributions. An insured married woman is entitled to two maternity benefits, one from her own insurance and...
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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/F20BBBA2-2422-4FEC-A48F-3FFBEEC15A07 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/809381FF-A861-4D36-9AF3-07D2809C9D7F |
| Summary: | 1928-07
1928
1920s
10 pages
- 3 - Maternity benefit is not payable until the person in respect of whose insurance it is clained [claimed] has been in insurance for 42 weeks and has paid 42 contributions. An insured married woman is entitled to two maternity benefits, one from her own insurance and one from her husband's, or where the husband is not insured then she is entitled to a second benefit from her own insurance. Maternity benefit is in every case the mother's benefit. She may authorise her husband to receive it, but in any such case he is required to pay the money over to his wife. It must be applied in the interests of the mother and child. It is almost always paid in cash, but it would be competent for a society to devote the whole or part of the cash in placing at the disposal of its members the services of doctors or of duly certified midwives, or the Society may make provision for the expectant mother's admission to a maternity home. The mother is entitled to decide whether she shall be attended by a doctor or certified midwife, and has freedom of choice in the selection of doctor or midwife. The expenditure on Maternity Benefit is approximately £1,750,000 per annum. An insured woman is entitled to sickness benefit during pregnancy if she is certified as being rendered incapable of work. A good deal of confusion of thought exists on this point. Factory The Factory and Workshops Act (1901) - Section 61 - provides that a woman shall not return to work within 4 weeks of giving birth to a child. In practice this is a dead letter. II THE PRESENT POSITION (1) The Maternal Mortality Rate. Though the general death rate and the infant mortality rate have fallen markedly during the last 20 years, the maternal mortality rate has not done so, nor the still-birth rate. The following table shows the general death rate, maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, and birth rate, 1906-1926:-
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