[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *7 each, the training to include instruction for the examination of the Central Midwives Board. During 1915 two midwives who received scholarships in 1914 commenced practice, and two further scholarships were granted. A grant of £35 was also made to a Nursing Association where the Holt-Ockley system of cottage nursing is in operation. The training of District Nurses, who are also midwives, has been stimulated of recent years by the operations of the County Nursing Association, whose activities in this direction have latterly been somewhat hampered by the financial situation caused by the War. The full value of the services rendered towards the extension of the midwifery service cannot be estimated by the number of trained women practising under the Act, as other trained women who act as maternity nurses under the direction of a doctor do not undertake independent conduct of cases, and therefore are not required to notify their intention to practise under the Act from year to year. The Local Government Board have recently made a grant of £45 to the County Nursing Association for distribution to District Nursing Associations whose nurses act as midwives. The Board are not, however, prepared to make grants for nurses who nurse maternity cases but do not practise as midwives, and both the County Nursing Association and County Council have made representations to the Board in favour of a reversal of this policy, in view of the valuable services rendered to the health of the community by an efficient system of maternity nursing. From information, furnished by the mid wives, the total number of cases attended during the year, either as midwife or monthly nurse, is returned as 1,046, compared with 988 during 1914. Of these 220 were attended in the capacity