Maternal Mortality and Scheme for a National Maternity Service (interim report)
1929-11 1929 1920s 12 pages - 4 - 11. In addition to the personal work of health visitors and midwives, the education of public opinion in the value of the work of ante-natal clinics may be furthered by: (a) Health talks and lectures: These should be given to the members of both men's an...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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November 1929
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/44592598-4FFF-4D53-9619-5D2E162BC38B http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F166FA6F-7B9C-46E5-AE0C-6B73359B987B |
| Summary: | 1929-11
1929
1920s
12 pages
- 4 - 11. In addition to the personal work of health visitors and midwives, the education of public opinion in the value of the work of ante-natal clinics may be furthered by: (a) Health talks and lectures: These should be given to the members of both men's and women's organisations, stressing the greater safety of mothers who have received ante-natal care. (b) Publicity (i) of places and times of ante-natal sessions; (ii) comparative figures of maternal mortality, among mothers who have attended ante-natal clinics and those who have not. 12. (2) Hospital clinics The maternity departments of both municipal and voluntary hospitals must provide ante-natal clinics at which the health of patients is supervised during the whole of pregnancy. There should be the closest co-operation between these departments and the Public Health Department; such co-operation should be a compulsory condition for receiving a grant from the Local Authority. All patients must be examined post-natally. 13. (B) The midwife Throughout pregnancy the midwife should co-operate with the Public Health Department and its clinics. She should urge her patients to see the doctor at the clinic and should report any abnormality or post-maturity to the doctor. 14. (C) The doctor It is the duty of every doctor, private practitioner or otherwise, to examine any maternity case at least twice before confinement and once after. This should be considered the minimum. The importance of ante- and post-natal care should be instilled into the medical student so that the future doctor will look on it as the routine practice.
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