Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages school to-day, not only to educate them for motherhood, but to see that their bodies are now properly nourished so that those conditions of rickets and those other factors making for pelvic deformities shall not be allowed to develop. A point that is referred to over and...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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school to-day, not only to educate them for motherhood, but to see that their bodies are now properly nourished so that those conditions of rickets and those other factors making for pelvic deformities shall not be allowed to develop. A point that is referred to over and over again in Dame Janet's special Report and in the Report of the Departmental Committee, and in the Reports of various County and Borough Medical Officers of Health, is that mothers often are not very wise in buying and cooking food for themselves and their families. Well, one admits that there is sometimes a great deal of truth in that criticism, but when I read the criticism, and when I know the mothers to whom the criticism applies, as we on my Committee do know them, I sometimes feel that it is almost impertinent to offer advice to some of these mothers as to how they shall spend their money. When we think that many of the mothers in the industrial areas to-day are having to provide nourishment for themselves and their families on 35s. to 40s., when we remember that expectant mothers are dealing with that problem, and when we say that they don't all show the wisdom they might show in using their money, one admits that may be true. But when all is said, if we expect that mother to provide food of adequate nutritive value and vitamin content for herself as an expectant mother on an income of that kind, we are expecting of her in administering her financial affairs much more exact and detailed scientific knowledge and foresight and skill than we have so far been prepared to demand of the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Governor of the Bank of England. I do hope that when we are doing our propaganda and our educational work in our localities for Maternity Services, when we are trying to get our Local Authorities to use the powers they have already to provide extra nourishment and milk for expectant mothers, that we will also try to bring home the necessity for the adequate nutrition now of the young girls who will be the mothers of the next generation. I have much pleasure, Madam Chairman, in moving the resolution. Miss PYE (President of the Midwives' Institute) : Lady Iveagh and friends, it gives me very great pleasure to second this resolution and to have the opportunity of expressing on behalf of the midwives of this country how warmly we welcome all the efforts to deal with the problem of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity. In the short time that I have I can only deal with one or two points with which midwives are specially concerned, and I want to plead not only for the development of ante-natal care, skilled midwifery, and the services of skilled obstetricians for mothers, but also for a more humane and reasonable attitude towards the abolition of distress and suffering during childbirth. (15)
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