Maternal Mortality : Report June, 1932
1932-06 1932 1930s 20 pages Since then in a deputation to the Minister (the Rt. Hon. Sir E. Hilton Young, M.P.), organised by one of our constituent Societies, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, the Secretary drew attention to Sir George Newman's latest report for 1930 i...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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London : The Maternal Mortality Committee
June 1932
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1932
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Since then in a deputation to the Minister (the Rt. Hon. Sir E. Hilton Young, M.P.), organised by one of our constituent Societies, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, the Secretary drew attention to Sir George Newman's latest report for 1930 in which he enumerates the eighteen County Boroughs which might be regarded as having a permanently excessive maternal death rate. The Secretary quoted from the Report to show that "up to the middle of May, 1931, no considered reply had been received from any of the eighteen Authorities, except Huddersfield, to the official circular" of December, 1930, and Sir George Newman notes that "replies have since been received from some, but not all, of these areas." In view of the above results we have concluded that we can again usefully investigate and report to our Correspondents on the extent to which the Authorities are carrying out their powers. The work has been immensely facilitated by the kind readiness with which nearly all the Medical Officers of Health have responded to our application for Reports, but it is hampered by the great variation in the way in which these Reports have been drawn up. As an example, we have found it difficult to get the returns of the maternal mortality rate. Though every Local Authority gives the number of women dying in childbirth, all do not give the death rate and, in some cases, the rate and the number of deaths are to be found in such different sections of the Report that minute examination of the whole Report has been necessary to arrive at these returns. Within, however, the limitations which have arisen from these differences of reporting, and from the fact that some reports are so meagre that we question if they have fully stated all the powers that the Medical Officer of Health is in a position to exercise, we submit the following analysis :— COUNTY COUNCILS There are sixty-one administrative counties in England and Wales. Of these we have analysed sixty reports. As far as we can gather from the reports of the Medical Officers of Health of the County Councils, the position with regard to the powers of a Local Authority under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, 1918, is as follows :— (1) The appointment of Health Visitors, whose duties include Attendance at an Ante-natal and Post-natal Centre, and the visiting of expectant mothers. All have Health Visitors part of whose duty is to visit the expectant mothers. It will be observed later that there are County Councils who apparently have no ante-natal centres, and it is difficult to see if any arrangement is made for post-natal examination. (5)
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