Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages fever, i.e., puerperal sepsis, had normal confinements. Does not that indicate that there is a lack of nursing skill? I put it to you, that if you had a midwife beside the confined woman, she would give that nursing skill. The medical man or woman is not there to do that...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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fever, i.e., puerperal sepsis, had normal confinements. Does not that indicate that there is a lack of nursing skill? I put it to you, that if you had a midwife beside the confined woman, she would give that nursing skill. The medical man or woman is not there to do that work. As a midwife who has worked in some of the poorest areas from 1900 to 1919, and could show a 2 per 1,000 Maternal Mortality rate of the women that I attended in their homes (when they were normal), I commend it to you to see that your Local Authority provides the midwives for the confinements when circumstances do not permit of their employment. THE HON. MRS. BERNARD JAMES (Buckinghamshire County Council) : It is a very small point which I am going to make, but one which I think might bear much fruit. Sir Hilton Young and the Committee have stressed how important education is for the mother and for the father, but I don't think that that education reaches them soon enough. We have heard that the greatest risk is with the first baby. It is with the first baby that they are very often shy of seeking advice. Very often they have not the least idea where to go for it. When we were up against the question of Infant Mortality, the Government tackled it very successfully. Under the Notification of Births Act, it was laid down that a Health Visitor should visit every child before it was ten days old, and that question now is very largely solved. I suggest that we ought to do the same with the young mothers and the young fathers, that we should educate them at the moment of marriage. Marriage is the concern of the State, and every marriage has to be registered. I suggest that the State should see that every young husband and young wife is given a simple little leaflet which will tell them the great importance of ante-natal care and where they can get it. I suggest that that should be a little wedding present from the State. I am convinced they would be grateful for it, for so often they do not know where to turn for advice. THE VISCOUNTESS ERLEIGH : Lady Iveagh, ladies and gentlemen, it has been a most interesting meeting here this afternoon. A great many very practical points of view have been put forward. We have had various suggestions put forward, but I think the Conference will agree that it becomes very difficult if everybody wants to press their own point exclusively. Your Committee goes very carefully into the matter when they draw up their resolution which is sufficiently wide to embrace all that we all wish to do, and if you will agree with me this afternoon that we adopt it, it will have more effect than anything (31)
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