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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

(d.) The principles of asepsis and anti-sepsis.
(e.) Antiseptics in midwifery, and the way to prepare and use them.
(f.) Pregnancy and its principal complications, including abortion.
(g.) Obstetrical diagnosis :
(i.) Abdominal palpation.
(ii.) Vaginal examination.
(h.) The symptoms, mechanism, and course of normal labour.
(i.) Management of normal labour.
(j.) The signs that a labour is abnormal.
(k.) Hæmorrhage :—its varieties, and the treatment of each.
(l.) Drugs used in midwifery and their dosage.
(m.) The administration of anæsthetics to the obstetric degree.
(n.) The management of the puerperal patient.
(o.) Taking and recording of temperature, pulse, and respiration.
(p.) Catheterization, and urine-testing.
(q.) Obstetric emergencies, and how the midwife should deal with them until the arrival of a doctor.
(r.) Puerperal infections :—their nature, causes, symptoms, and prevention.
(s.) The management of infants, and the signs of diseases which may develop during the first month.
(t.) Infant-feeding, natural and artificial.
(u.) The elements of house-sanitation. The disinfection of person, clothing, and appliances.
(v.) Cooking and preparation of food.
(2.) Any candidate who during the examination shows a want of acquaintance with the ordinary subjects of elementary education may be rejected on that ground alone.
(3.) The examination shall be held half-yearly at such times and places as are from time to time notified by the Registrar.
(4.) Candidates for the examination must give notice to the Registrar at least three weeks before the date so notified.
(5.) No pupil-nurse shall present herself for examination if she has during her period of training missed three or more of the lectures hereinafter provided for.
(6.) Pupil-nurses, if registered under the Nurses Registration Act, 1908, shall pay a fee of 10s. for six months’ training ; in all other cases the fee shall be £1 for twelve months’ training.
(7.) Pupil-nurses undergoing a course of practical training in midwifery in any hospital or institution approved by the Registrar (other than a State maternity hospital) may, upon payment of a fee of £3 3s., attend the course of lectures delivered at a State maternity hospital. Notwithstanding anything in subclause (2) of the next succeeding regulation, no further fee shall be charged on the registration of a person to whom this regulation applies.
(8.) No pupil-nurse shall be entitled to a certificate under the said Act unless she has conducted not less than twenty cases of labour, and has also nursed twenty lying-in women during the ten days following labour.

MIDWIVES’ FEES ON REGISTRATION.

3. The fees payable by midwives on registration shall be as follows :—
   (1.) If trained outside New Zealand and registered under paragraph (a) of section 4 of the said Act, 10s. in the case of persons registered under the Nurses Registration Act, 1908, and £1 in all other cases.
   (2.) If registered under paragraph (b) of section 4 of the said Act, after training in New Zealand in any institution, £1.

ANNUAL NOTICES TO BE GIVEN BY PRACTISING MIDWIVES.

4. The notice of intention to begin the practice of midwifery, or to continue such practice, required to be given by section 9 of the said Act, shall be in the form set forth in Schedule A hereto.
5. (1.) If any registered midwife fails to give such notice for two years in succession, the Minister may order her name to be removed from the register.
   (2.) Any midwife whose name has been removed from the register pursuant to the last preceding subclause may apply to the Registrar to have her name restored to the register, and on satisfying the Registrar that she is entitled to registration, her name shall be restored accordingly.