Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages at the moment of entry into life are matters for the special concern of every reasoning mind and every feeling heart. Sense and sentiment all combine to emphasise the importance of your work, and my last word to you would be this — to assure you, and to enter wi...
| 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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| Summary: | 1932-11
1932
1930s
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at the moment of entry into life are matters for the special concern of every reasoning mind and every feeling heart. Sense and sentiment all combine to emphasise the importance of your work, and my last word to you would be this — to assure you, and to enter with you into an expression, of our common knowledge that life has no higher task than this service to the givers of life. THE CHAIRMAN : Ladies and gentlemen, we have listened with the greatest interest to the address of the Minister of Health. I understand that he has immediately to return to the House of Commons to take part in a debate there, and I am sure you will not wish him to leave without an expression of our thanks. I would, therefore, ask Miss Tuckwell to express our thanks to the Minister. Miss Tuckwell, you will know, is the Secretary of the Maternal Mortality Committee and on her falls the major part of its burden as well as the task of bringing into being our successful Conference to-day. Miss TUCKWELL : Lady Iveagh and friends, it is a very pleasant duty to move a vote of thanks to Sir Hilton Young. Indeed I am one of his most constant students. Ever since he came into office, I have been cutting out everything he said on this subject. I have left a number of them at home, but here are a few, and when he alluded to ante-natal care, to skilled obstetricians, to rousing the Local Authorities, to all the things we have been working for for seven years, I felt that here we had somebody who had pledged himself to our service. He understands that this is a question of life and death, that it is one of the most vital questions that can be imagined, and that on it the nation depends. Six years ago when we first met the Maternal Mortality Departmental Committee had not begun its work. Now the Midwives' Report, the Interim Report ; that excellent Report of Dame Janet's, High Maternal Mortality in Certain Areas ; and finally the last Report of the Departmental Committee on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity have come out. It is our business to help the Minister to implement it. He has told us what he means to do. He has told us that he is going to see that the Report is carried out. I saw that the Prime Minister received a deputation on Disarmament the other day, and after the deputation had spoken he said to them, "You are the people whose pressure we need to support us. Whatever you do, push" Now I call on you all here to pledge yourselves to push behind Sir Hilton Young till we have got this Report carried out, keeping always, as our ultimate objective, sir, that National Maternity Service which in brighter circumstances we shall achieve. I have the greatest pleasure in moving a vote of thanks. (11)
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