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… midwives were not permitted to deliver babies without a doctor on hand. At the same time the number of home births was increasing (though still relatively small), … for alternative options set by Parents Centre. The Home Birth Association was founded in 1978. These social …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… and early 20th centuries, most Pākehā women gave birth at home supported by midwives, family or neighbours. Midwives … and after the birth. Middle-class women sometimes engaged a doctor if they could afford to do so. Women also gave birth … could give birth in the hospitals or use their midwives at home. Registered midwives managed most births. Doctors were …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Doctor control Doctors began to take control of primary … later in the wake of a dispute between orthodox doctors and homeopaths. Doctors did not regain self-regulation until … separated themselves from other practitioners such as homeopaths and came to dominate primary health care. …
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Part of story: Primary health care
… leaving school around the age of 13 Alice was taught at home. With extra tuition from family friends in chemistry … even failure in medical practice at a time when women doctors were often regarded with circumspection. Alice … Domestic help and a surgery attached to the family home helped make this possible, though it was evidently not …
Type: Biography
… abortions were sometimes skilled: a maternity nurse, a doctor or a chemist. But many had no medical training – … could cost as much as £100 (around $8,600 in 2018 terms). Home and back-street methods Many women desperate to end a pregnancy would first try to do so at home. Attempts to induce miscarriage included vigorous and …
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Part of story: Abortion
… and horse racing. Sporting events did not have official doctors or first aid practitioners in attendance. If an … athlete was lucky another athlete or a spectator might be a doctor. In the case of rural sports the nearest medical help … sporting teams worked on a largely voluntary basis for home games and generally didn’t go on tour. When doctors did …
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Part of story: Sports medicine and drugs
… to obtain until the 1970s. The churches condemned it, most doctors disapproved, and women who had abortions did not … secret, not telling her family. Her son grew up in a foster home. Abortion law English law, applied in the country from … Eileen O’Donoghue died. After her abortion she struggled home to Napier from Gisborne, telling a taxi driver that …
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Part of story: Abortion
… Todd believed passionately that the important role of any doctor is ‘sometimes to cure, often to relieve, but always … her diploma in psychiatric medicine (DPM). After returning home, for five years Todd headed the psychological clinic at … From 1949 to 1963 she ran a private practice from her home in Melling, Lower Hutt, but was able to continue her …
Type: Biography
… practice in Symonds Street. There she built a surgery and home and practised for 30 years, specialising in obstetrics … for women and children were much in demand from a woman doctor, including antenatal care and baby clinics. She … Association as a lecturer and examiner in first aid and home nursing, becoming a life member in 1952 and an officer …
Type: Biography
… has always made access to health services difficult. Rural doctors and nurses The mainstay of the rural health system … has always been the country GP. In the 19th century, these doctors regularly travelled long distances on foot or … painful journey. Gradually more hospitals and maternity homes were set up in the regions, often part-funded by local …
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Part of story: Rural services
… than for people in Britain. Immigration guides advised doctors to come to New Zealand for the benefit of their own … frequently. Elite doctors treated the wealthy in their own homes, but many doctors were more like pharmacists, making … positions in hospitals, where they worked for free. Homeopathic humour In June 1890 the Thames Star newspaper …
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Part of story: Primary health care
… school and her father was the town’s first resident doctor. In 1910 he became superintendent of Taumarunui … and, disregarding tradition, moved into the nurses’ home. She then worked at Cook Hospital, Gisborne, and … was on an urgent call, Nina’s daughters would find her at home at four o’clock to have afternoon tea with them. In …
Type: Biography
… and took up private practice, establishing her surgery and home in Dominion Road, Mount Eden. She also became honorary … and pathologist at Auckland Hospital, the second woman doctor to hold this position; the first had been Alice … her work at the hospital, and on 29 January she died at her home. She had never married. Within two years her male …
Type: Biography
… through a weekly payment to the society. Societies paid doctors a moderate fee per person for looking after a family … to them. The clubs drove a hard bargain. One irritated doctor wrote: ‘The majority of thrifty members of the … 2010), and assisting maternity nurses £1 ($92 in 2010) for home deliveries. Visiting nurses were also paid 5 shillings …
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Part of story: Primary health care
… at the parish church of St John, Hampstead. The young doctor practised at Matlock Bath and Rugby, before deciding … was born three months later in their Christchurch tent home, which Alfred humorously dubbed 'Studding Sail Hall'. … been made with a lens from his brother's telescope in a home-made camera. By December 1858 Barker had achieved the …
Type: Biography
… Joan Donley was a midwife whose advocacy of home births and natural childbirth helped shape modern … and an extension of the rights of midwives. Donley regarded home birth as a ‘feminist and a political act’ by which … up nursing because she could not afford to study to be a doctor. She trained at Saskatoon City Hospital, graduating …
Type: Biography
… formalised nursing as a profession. Supervised nurses’ homes were opened on hospital grounds to encourage young and … in learning and practice, they were seen as subordinate to doctors. This attitude was expressed by Nurse Sibylla Maude … answer “Yes, Sir” is surely more professional than “Yes, Doctor”, and to stand to receive orders … is equally …
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Part of story: Health practitioners
… cope the girls alternated attending school. One stayed home to care for the five younger children in the family, … she became the first New Zealand woman to register as a doctor and subsequently to engage in general medical … to her work was shown in her obtaining the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Otago in 1903 and in …
Type: Biography
… from which additional health professionals were paid. If doctors were the LMC, they had to use the lump sum to pay … Limited change Some commentators expected the number of home births to increase significantly after 1990, but this … of women continued to give birth in hospitals. Planned home births increased from 0.04% of all births in 1973 to 2% …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… nurses and a closer supervision of private hospitals and doctors. Gordon among others believed that doctors had to … Sir William Fletcher Shaw and John Stallworthy. Back home, Gordon accepted the post of director of maternal and … treating unusual cases', with smaller suburban maternity homes for normal births (based on her belief that maternity …
Type: Biography