Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages Our work is always the same, the work of pushing on, the work of education, the education of public opinion in order that nobody shall be unaware of the facilities which do exist for ante-natal and natal care, for further and better education in obstetrics, on which the R...
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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| Summary: | 1932-11
1932
1930s
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Our work is always the same, the work of pushing on, the work of education, the education of public opinion in order that nobody shall be unaware of the facilities which do exist for ante-natal and natal care, for further and better education in obstetrics, on which the Report of the Committee so lays emphasis, and for the filling up of the gaps which exist and the co-ordination of all effort. That is our ideal, the ideal towards which we must still strive, and which has not by any means yet been reached, that there shall be provided at every pregnancy and every birth such skilled care as shall ensure as far as is humanly possible the safety of the mother. I will now call upon Sir Hilton Young to address us. THE RT. HON. SIR HILTON YOUNG, M.P. (Minister of Health) : Lady Iveagh, ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful to you for this opportunity of addressing so large and so representative a gathering of those who are interested in the subject of the welfare of the mother and child at the season of birth. I see before me some 1,300 representatives of those voluntary organisations to which you, Lady Iveagh, have referred, to whose efforts we owe so much in the educating of the public mind upon this subject and the stimulus of progress, representatives of Associations whose very names bear witness to the widespread nature of the interest that is being taken and the work that is being done. We join here together to-day, ladies and gentlemen, for a brief pause, to consider this subject of such vital moment to the welfare of the nation, and I know that there must particularly be present in the minds of all of us the most recent advance which has been made in the contribution towards knowledge and understanding of our subject. I use advisedly in the forefront of what I have to say, and with particular emphasis the word "advance," because "Advance" must be the motto, the battle-cry of those whose work is concerned. Now, ladies and gentlemen, that most recent advance is that Report to which you, Lady Iveagh, have referred, the Final Report of the Maternal Mortality Committee, a document which immediately, I think I may say, has seized upon the attention of all of us who are interested in the subject. In the first place, we note that the Final Report confirms those preliminary conclusions which were communicated to us by the findings of the Interim Report. Now what is the singular importance of this document? It is, is it not, the wide basis of its knowledge. It deals with recorded cases, to the number of no less than 5,800, in which women died in childbirth. Dealing, as I say, with this wide basis of actual fact the conclusions of the Committee must carry to us a singular significance and importance. (4)
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