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in April, 1923. In the outskirts of the district it has been impossible
to obtain a midwife, the private midwives having declined
to attend such cases, which have fallen into the hands of untrained
women, with a doctor called in at the last moment.
There are also cases of women who are unable, for family
reasons, to enter the Maternity Home, and are unable to pay
doctors' or midwives' fees. It is desirable that the midwife attending
such cases should be under the control of the Local Authority.
Further, the pupil midwives at the Maternity Home require,
by the regulations of the C.M.B., training in district midwifery.
This is now possible with the appointment which has been made.
During 1923 the District Midwife, Miss Butcher, has
attended 31 cases. Of these 22 were delivered by herself, seven
by doctors, and two were cases of inevitable abortion.