on the district
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- (UK, medicine, historical) Of a midwife: associated with a particular hospital, and travelling to attend patients in the nearby area.
- 2013, Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter, The Midwife's Tale:
- Midwives working on the district rarely saw women die because, on the whole, they would transfer to hospital any women with severe problems.
- 2013, Tania McIntosh, A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth, page 96:
- Pethidine, a synthetic opioid developed in Germany during the war, was used in 75 per cent of hospital labours by 1948. In contrast midwives working on the district were not able to offer it to their women until 1951.