Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages woman should be taken in and looked after whatever the cost to the nation. THE CHAIRMAN read a question sent up by St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance : Does voting for the resolution imply that we favour advice and instruction in contraceptive methods bei...
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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woman should be taken in and looked after whatever the cost to the nation. THE CHAIRMAN read a question sent up by St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance : Does voting for the resolution imply that we favour advice and instruction in contraceptive methods being given at clinics set up by Local Authorities under the Public Health Acts? If so, could we take the resolution in two parts as our delegates do not wish to vote against the resolution, but could not vote for it if Birth Control advice by Public Authorities is implied. THE CHAIRMAN : As I read the resolution there is nothing whatever there that need stop anybody voting who is not in favour of instruction in contraceptive methods. We support the findings of the Committee which supports our persistent demand for the development of ante-natal care, skilled midwifery, and the services of skilled obstetricians. Therefore, I think those delegates can perfectly well vote for this. MRS. MALONE (The Violet Melchett Infant Welfare Centre (Chelsea) ) : I want just for a moment to emphasise the extraordinary importance of co-ordination, that is to say, that we use to the best possible advantage the machinery that we already have. The body that I represent wants, as an immediate and a practical suggestion, to urge that all Local Authorities should be pressed to confer without delay with their local branch of the British Medical Association and the Midwives' Institute in order to get the best possible results from close and efficient co-operation of personnel and the best and most economical use of the hospital accommodation and the clinic accommodation. We feel that there should be in every area a unit of service comprising the consultant, the doctor, the midwife, the home-help, and the hospital and clinic. Take the case of a midwife working on her own. If she were a member of a unit of service, various risks would not be run. As it is, she goes to a case when she does not feel well, perhaps when she has a sore throat, often at great risk to her patient. If she were a member of a unit, she need not go when she was not quite fit. Someone could be sent in her place, and she could be indemnified by giving her another case when she was well. Or take again the whole question of the midwife working on her own. Is it right that a midwife should be alone in attendance on her case? There are often cases when two pairs of hands are needed. Something needs to be done in the room which ought not to be done by the person in close attendance upon the patient. As it is, the midwife has to do it, sometimes at great risk to her patient. If she was part of a unit, she could (28)
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