Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages I want to appeal both to the Government and to the Industrial Insurance Approved Societies to support an extension of the help for married women during their times of sickness. The appeal should perhaps be specially addressed at this time to the industrial Approved Associ...
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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I want to appeal both to the Government and to the Industrial Insurance Approved Societies to support an extension of the help for married women during their times of sickness. The appeal should perhaps be specially addressed at this time to the industrial Approved Associations because, although they show the greatest anxiety and the greatest consideration for the whole problem of Maternal Mortality and Maternal Morbidity, as regards morbidity at any rate all they have to suggest is that there should be special qualifications attached to a woman on marriage before she can receive full benefits. With regard to Maternal Mortality, however, the industrial Insurance Societies put forward an admirable scheme at their Conference yesterday for the establishment of clinics to deal with every aspect of the Maternal Mortality problem, ante-natal attention at birth and post-natal nursing. The clinics were to be in co-operation, of course, with the Local Authorities and others, and I suggest to you that if this scheme could be carried out it would do a great deal to help the problem. If some part of the maternity benefit could be given in a form of this type a very valuable contribution will have been made to the whole problem. MRS. PYKE (National Birth Control Association) : Madam Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, of the 3,805 maternal deaths analysed in the second series and spoken of in the last Report of the Departmental Committee, 514 were due to lung disease, heart disease, chronic renal disease, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Now relating to that last figure for tuberculosis, the death-rate is even higher there if we are to judge from the figures quoted elsewhere in the Report. Rist followed up 52 women who were tubercular when they became pregnant and found that in 84.6 per cent. cases the condition was made worse, and that of those fifty-two women nineteen died at the end of one year and twenty-six after two years, that is to say, that forty-five out of the fifty-two died, but none of them would have been included in the Maternal Mortality rate. That gives some idea perhaps of the number of mothers who died because they are tubercular when they become pregnant. Now the Committee state that for women suffering from such organic disease and for their husbands "advice and instruction in contraceptive methods should be readily available from private practitioners, at hospitals or at gynaecological clinics set up by Local Authorities under the Public Health Acts in accordance with suggestions made by the Ministry of Health in Circular 1208 (1931)," but according to the interpretation of the existing law in that Circular and in Memorandum 157 M. & C. W. Local Authorities may only advise — on medical grounds, of course — either nursing or expectant mothers or women suffer- (21)
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