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Maternity and Nursing Homes. (Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927).
1.—Number of applications for registration None
2.—Number of Nursing Homes on Register One
3.—Number of orders made refusing or cancelling
registration None
4.—Number of appeals against such orders None
5.—Number of appeals in which orders have
been:—
(a) confirmed on appeal None
(b) disallowed None
6.—Number of applications for exemption from
registration None
7.—Number of cases in which exemption has
been:—
(a) granted None
(b) withdrawn None
(c) refused None
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
This subject has received widespread publicity in the Press
and from the platform. The Ministry of Health has in recent
years investigated and reported upon the causes and prevention
of these deaths. investigations have been made into every
Maternal Death, of cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia.
More facilities for the ante-natal care of expectant mothers
with the provision of a Maternity Home, would appreciably
diminish the toll on the lives of the Mothers.
The number of women dying from childbirth in 1930 was
8 as compared with 12 for the previous year.
In the graph printed below is set out the Maternal Mortality
Rates per 1,000 live births for the years 1914-30:—