Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages Services is needed to render them effective, this meeting pledges itself to unresting work till in each area these vital services are completely developed. Miss SUTHERLAND (Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party) : Madam Chairman and delegates, it gives me great pleasu...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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Services is needed to render them effective, this meeting pledges itself to unresting work till in each area these vital services are completely developed. Miss SUTHERLAND (Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party) : Madam Chairman and delegates, it gives me great pleasure to be here this afternoon at this representative gathering of women from all sorts of organisations, women who are working in voluntary organisations, women and men who are taking part in public health work under Local Authorities, to move this resolution relating to the conclusions of the recent Final Report of the Departmental Committee on which the Minister has just spoken. I think the Committee's report has underlined once again facts which should bring home to everyone of us a sense of our responsibility in regard to the high maternal death-rate that exists to-day. So long as we have that high death-rate, so long as we know that of the 8,000 mothers who die in childbirth every year 1,500 die unnecessarily, so long are we as a community accepting responsibility for that state of affairs, and it is our duty, and the report calls us to this duty, to press our Local Authorities in every area to carry out their obligations in regard to the maternity services. Quite recently, in the House of Commons, an Answer was given to a Question relating to the number of Local Authorities which had replied to Circular 1167 with the accompanying Memorandum 156 which was issued by the Ministry of Health in 1930 following the Interim Report of the Departmental Committee. This reply given some two weeks ago shows that out of 431 Local Authorities 364 had replied to the Circular. Two years have elapsed and sixty-seven Local Health Authorities have still not replied to this Circular sent out in December, 1930. We hope that you will take steps to ascertain whether your Local Authority is one of those, and that you will do something in your locality if your Local Authority is one of the backward ones to bring pressure on them to deal with that Circular and find out what reason they have for not having replied to it or indicated whether they propose to take any action regarding it. Of the 364 which have replied, 210 have indicated that they are making improvements or propose to make improvements in their Maternity Services, ninety-three Local Authorities have said they do not propose to make an improvement in their services — this may mean that in some of these cases considerable provision has already been made by the Local Authorities; sixty Local Authorities still have the matter under consideration. Now I think that sometimes a Local Authority can go on for years and years having a matter under consideration, so if your Local Authority is one of those that still has the matter under consideration, I hope that you will work in your locality to get (13)
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