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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 62

Misconduct.

11. A midwife who commits a breach of regulation 7 or 8 of these regulations shall be deemed guilty of misconduct.

Malpractices.

12. A midwife shall not make use of any instrument to aid delivery, or administer ergot, pituitarin, or other ecbohc drug before or during labour, or administer chloroform or any other anaesthetic, except by the direction of a medical practitioner.

13. Any midwife who makes use of an instrument to aid delivery, or administers any ecbohc drug before or during labour, or who administers chloroform or any other anaesthetic, except as aforesaid, or who procures or attempts to procure abortion by any means (chemical or mechanical), shall be deemed guilty of a malpractice.

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SCHEDULE A.

Under Midwives Act, 1908.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PRACTISE MIDWIFERY.

To the Registrar of Midwives, Wellington.

I, [Full name], a midwife registered under the Midwives Act, 1908, hereby give you notice of my intention to practise [or to continue the practice of] midwifery at ; and I hereby declare as follows:—

1. My place of abode is:

2. I was first registered on the day of , 19 , and have since practised as a midwife at

Dated at this day of , 19 .

[Signature.]

I certify that I am acquainted with the above-named , and that the said notice was signed in my presence.

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Medical Practitioner [or Minister of Religion or Justice of the Peace].

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SCHEDULE B.

METHOD OF DISINFECTION OF MIDWIFE AND CLOTHING, OF INSTRUMENTS, AND APPLIANCES subsequent to Attendance upon a Case of Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Erysipelas, or any Illness of a Suppurative Character.

1. The midwife shall wash herself all over, including her hair, in a hot bath to which has been added lysol in the proportion of four ounces of lysol to ten gallons of water.

2. She shall then have a complete change of clothing.

3. She shall boil thoroughly all dresses and aprons which she has worn while in attendance upon the case.

4. She shall sterilize her hands and forearms by scrubbing them vigorously with a sterilized nail-brush, in hot water and soap for five minutes, then rinsing them in water, and lastly, immersing them for three minutes in a solution of the strength of one part of biniodide of mercury dissolved in five hundred parts of 70-per-cent. methylated spirit. During this time she shall rub the hands and forearms with sterile gauze wet with the solution, paying special attention to the roots of the nails and in between the fingers and cleaning beneath the nails with a piece of wood wet with the solution (a wooden match is useful), but avoiding anything that is likely to separate the nail from the surrounding skin. At the end of three minutes she shall wash the antiseptic off in plain methylated spirit.

NOTE.—To make the methylated-spirit solution dissolve two 8·75 gr. biniodide tablets in 4 oz. of boiling water and add sufficient methylated spirit to make 1 pint.

5. She shall remove the contents and lining from her midwifery bag and shall sterilize bag-lining and contents as follows:—

(a.) Bag: Wipe over all surfaces inside and out with a cloth moistened with a solution of 5 per cent. formalin (formalin 1 oz. to 1 pint of water).

(b.) Lining: Boil for twenty minutes.