Memorandum on maternal mortality
1928-07 1928 1920s 10 pages - 10 - still object to the stigma of the Poor Law, but maternity in these institutions is in the hands of the Poor Law nurses and resident medical officers and very few have any power or wish to obtain specialist midwifery aid. When, however, the Poor Law is broken up an...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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July 1928
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| Summary: | 1928-07
1928
1920s
10 pages
- 10 - still object to the stigma of the Poor Law, but maternity in these institutions is in the hands of the Poor Law nurses and resident medical officers and very few have any power or wish to obtain specialist midwifery aid. When, however, the Poor Law is broken up and the institutions taken over by the County Councils, the accommodation freed might well be utilised for this purpose. At present, Poor Law standards should not be accepted as good enough for the Public Health Service. (b) Isolation Beds for cases of puerperal fever must be provided and these should not be in the same building or nursed by the same staff as the healthy lying-in mothers. Special wards, either in the general hospitals or in the fever hospitals, should be set aside for these cases in every district. The patients must be under the care of specialists, who are in close touch with pathologists and bacteriologists, so that the patients may profit from every advance made in the research on this important subject. These beds are also necessary for emergency cases brought in during labour. (c) Convalescent Homes for women in pregnancy or for mothers with their infants are essential in the complete maternity service. (d) Resident Homes for Children would also meet a very real need and would allow greater rest for the mother in the last weeks of pregnancy and ease of mind during the lying-in period.
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