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A CIRCULAR on the Midwives Act, which has recently become law, has been issued by the Minister of Health (Circular 1569. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 6d. net). The Act marks an important advance in the policy of improving the public health services of Great Britain, and should do much to improve the maternity services, and secure a reduction in the present rate of maternal mortality. The Act aims at providing every prospective mother whose baby will be borne at home with the services of a trained midwife for her confinement and fourteen days thereafter. The new arrangements should also do much to improve the status and prospects of midwives who enter the new service. The Circular, which is addressed to the local authorities administering the Act, contains a memorandum fully explaining the provisions of the Act.
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New Midwives' Service. Nature 138, 755 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138755e0
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