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1781-01-18

ORDINANCE of the Administrators, concerning Accoucheurs and Midwives

Haitian

FRANÇOIS Reynaud de Villeverd, etc.

Joseph-Alexandre Le Brasseur, etc.

The multiplied accidents that result in this Colony from the ease with which all private persons and a great number of women of color, whose lack of skill is only too well demonstrated, give help to pregnant women and deliver them, have drawn our attention, and we wish to remedy this. We, by virtue of the powers granted to us by His Majesty, have ordered and do order what follows:

Source  ·  p. act 06:83b Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:83b