Handbook incorporating the rules of the Central Midwives Board.

  • Great Britain. Central Midwives Board.
Date:
1962
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Credit: Handbook incorporating the rules of the Central Midwives Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SL (p) the venereal diseases in women and young infants; their symptoms, signs and dangers, and the risk of contagion; the midwife’s responsibility for advocating early and continued treatment; (q) the use of such drugs and solutions as may be required in practice; the conditions which call for their use; their dosage and strength; the mode of administration or application and their dangers; (r) maternal mortality, neonatal mortality and stillbirths; the meaning of these terms and the steps taken to reduce such mortalities. 39. The Second Examination shall be oral, clinical and practical. A candidate may be required to answer questions on the following subjects :— (a) practical midwifery; (6) analgesia in childbirth; (c) the records kept by her in compliance with Rule B. 18; (d) social legislation, national insurance and social con- ditions; (e) public health and preventive aspects of antenatal care; (f) mothercraft, infant care and the principles of nutrition; including the methods of teaching these subjects; (g) the duties of the midwife as described in the rules and notices of the Board, and her relationship with the local health authorities and other authorities and or- ganizations by whom she may be employed or with whom she may come into contact. didate’s paper or from a book or other document may be