Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages County Council, and, believe me, the women of the Co-operative Guild have worked hard to get a little tiny Welfare Centre at Vange where the mother and child can go, and the Essex County Council gave a grant of £5 a year towards that clinic. Now I ask you, frien...
| 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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| Summary: | 1932-11
1932
1930s
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County Council, and, believe me, the women of the Co-operative Guild have worked hard to get a little tiny Welfare Centre at Vange where the mother and child can go, and the Essex County Council gave a grant of £5 a year towards that clinic. Now I ask you, friends, how can we possibly do the work that you ask us to do on this platform with a mouldy £5. What I do want is to talk about this particular moment, and at the Pitsea Welfare Centre at the present moment — I will not talk about the children, I will talk about the expectant mothers — there are seventeen expectant mothers there and out of them there are sixteen suffering, as Dr. Ratcliffe — the Assistant to Dr. Bullough — says, with malnutrition, because they have not got enough food at home to keep them going. If we are going to have these clinics according to our resolution, and if we are going to carry them out, we must see to it that the necessary food is given to those mothers who give the most precious thing in the world, and that is life — that dear little baby that you go and see. We have got to see to it, all of us who represent heaps and heaps of organisations, that we do something instead of using words, as some of these women do. The Chairman here has not got my views, I know — though I believe she is sincere in what she believes in regard to Maternity and Child Welfare progress. We must see that our mothers shall not suffer, and that our children shall not suffer, and I ask, with Miss Pye, that we shall have a round table conference in every county and a final one nationally which will include representatives from every one of those counties with every body that is concerned so that we shall come down to rock bottom and do something that will have some result. Mrs. A. L. SMITH : I come before you just as a mother who has been through the pain and peril of childbirth a great many times. I am watching with great anxiety the stationary death-rate, and noticing the extreme care with which even a normal labour is conducted compared with my own experiences. I wonder I survived, for I had rather haphazard nursing, no taking of temperature. I am speaking of mothers of my own class, because, according to Sir George Newman, the death-rate is higher, for instance, in well-to-do neighbourhoods like Hampstead than in the slums of London. The cause of this must be found. I think that over-athleticism has much to be responsible for ; the strain of modern life may be another cause ; unsuccessful attempts at abortion, a widespread evil, not confined to one class, is another ; and, finally, what Dr. Pye Chavasse called "meddlesome midwifery." (26)
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