LEEWARD ISLANDS.

MONTSERRAT.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS.
1954, No. 7.

RULES REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF MIpWIFERY AND THE FEES
PAYABLE 10 REGISTERED MIDWIVES.

Rules made by the Montserrat Midwives Board under section 25
of the Midwifery Ordinance, 1951 (No. 7 of 1951).

 

1. These Rules may be cited as the Midwives Rules, 1954.
2. In these rules— .

‘authorised person’? means any member of the Midwives’
Board, any medical practitioner, the Matron of the
Glendon Hospital, the Secretary to the Board and any
other person authorised by the Board.

(a) GENERAL.

3. Every midwife must possess, and produce for inspection,
when asked to do so by any authorised person, a copy of the
pamphlict “Rules regulating the practice of midwifery and the fees
payable to registered midwives”.

4. Every midwife shall keep a register of cases attended by
her in the form and manner approved of by the Board and such
register of cases shall be produced by the midwife for inspection
when called upon by any authorised person.

5. it shall be the duty of every midwife to furnish the Board
with such returns as the Board may from time to time demand.

6. When a midwife has been in attendance, whether as a
midwife or as a nurse upon a patient, or has heen in contact with
a person suffering from puerperal fever, or from any contagious
or infectious disease, or is, herself, liable to be a source of
infection or contagion, she shall immediately notify the District
Medical Officer of the District in which she is practising, shall
disinfect herself aud all her instruments and other appliances and
have her clothing thoroughly disinfected to the satisfaction of the
District Medical Officer and shall not attend any other midwifery
casc until she has obtained written permission to do so from the
District Medical Officer of her area.