Practical experience forms part of the course and was initially gained by working alongside midwives and health visitors in the HOTS drop-in antenatal clinic.
Under the disguise of doctors, midwives, school teachers, governesses, factory hands or common labourers, they sought to make proselytes among the peasantry and the workmen in the industrial centres by revolutionary pamphlets and oral explanations.
In the special 1 In 1902 an act was passed to establish a Central Midwives Board and regulated the training and employment of midwives.
Women are in excess in the occupations of boarding and lodging house keepers, housekeepers, launderers, nurses and midwives, and servants and waiters.
Under the Midwives Act 1902, every council of a county or county borough is the local supervising authority over midwives within its Midwives.