Report on maternity insurance
1927 1927 1920s 16 pages 9 Sir George Newman points out that the infant mortality rate implies (a) the loss of many infants (b) the maiming of many surviving children for conditions which kill some and injure others (c) a high death rate in the next four years of child life, and (d) the existence...
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9 Sir George Newman points out that the infant mortality rate implies (a) the loss of many infants (b) the maiming of many surviving children for conditions which kill some and injure others (c) a high death rate in the next four years of child life, and (d) the existence of unhealthy conditions in the mother and home life of the people. "The closely related mortality amongst women in childbirth still remains high and has shown little or no improvement since 1894. In 1925, 2,900 women died in childbirth. Of these as many as 1,110 died of puerperal fever, a preventable condition."* Dr. Janet Campbell, reporting in 1924, points out that the maternal death rate reveals only a part of the total damage and disability and that an incalculable amount of untreated injury and ill-health results from pregnancy and labour. Her suggestion includes the provision of suitable nourishment for necessitous, expectant and nursing mothers and consideration as to whether an extension or modification of sickness benefit during pregnancy under the National Health Insurance Act is desirable. The evidence of Dr. Smith-Whitaker, the representative of the Ministry of Health, given in 1926 before the Royal Commission, is of interest here. "If the requisite financial arrangements could be made, it would be very desirable to end the present system under which you have the general practitioner responsible for treatment before labour but having no responsibility during labour, the midwife, under an entirely independent authority, giving attendance in labour and calling in a practitioner to attend in labour, if necessary, who would be paid by the local authority, then you have the maternity and ante-natal centre giving assistance in the early stages. There is a great deal of overlapping and probably a good deal of waste, and it would be most desirable, if it could be arranged, to have a scheme that brought the family doctor, the midwife, the specialist, if necessary, and all the services that are available at the maternity centre, under a common scheme and a common control, so that they each played their proper part and were brought into proper relation with each other, helping one another instead of acting at a distance as they do now." The Midwives and Maternity Homes Act of 1926 provides for the registration and inspection of maternity homes and gives power to local Authorities to make by-laws with penalties. It is clear that Infant and Maternal Mortality have not yet been satisfactorily dealt with. *Report of the Chief Medical Officer for year 1925.
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| is_hierarchy_title | Report on maternity insurance |
| language | English English |
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| publishDate | 1927 |
| publisher | London : Co-operative Printing Society Ltd. |
| spellingShingle | Trades Union Congress Maternity and Child Welfare, 1924-1934 Health care Maternity insurance--Great Britain Report on maternity insurance |
| title | Report on maternity insurance |
| topic | Trades Union Congress Maternity and Child Welfare, 1924-1934 Health care Maternity insurance--Great Britain |
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