Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages with the necessary vitamins which will direct good bone growth. So that I say to the Conference, this is a preventable disease. But in those in whom it has already developed, diagnosis is the most important point — I want to emphasise that — and diagno...
| 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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with the necessary vitamins which will direct good bone growth. So that I say to the Conference, this is a preventable disease. But in those in whom it has already developed, diagnosis is the most important point — I want to emphasise that — and diagnosis between the possible safe delivery and the possible difficult delivery can only occur after careful and repeated supervision. At the ante-natal clinic there should be someone who is able to say at a glance almost, "The patient has the type of pelvis with a small amount of deformity, and the patient must not be allowed to go the full term." It is the ante-natal people who can give a skilled diagnosis. And having made the diagnosis, then we must have the magic word "co-ordination" carried into action because it is no good making a diagnosis unless there is a place where the ante-natal centres can send their cases for appropriate treatment. Treatment must follow diagnosis and there must be close co-ordination between the ante-natal clinic and the place where treatment has to be carried out. I am not one who supports the recommendation of the Report that it must be exactly the same person performing both duties. I believe there are people who are still willing to work in a team. I think we are living in this era of team work in modern medicine and team work must come with the ante-natal centre working in harmony with the hospital and the practitioner. I want just to emphasise this — that the most important thing is the prevention of the disease. The second is diagnosis, and the third, which must follow upon the second, is that treatment must follow the diagnosis made in the centre promptly and efficiently. Mrs. J. CLARKE (President of the Vange and Pitsea and District Co-operative Guild) : Madam Chairman, and fellow delegates, I think this question that is before us this afternoon is so important that I am sure that every one of us who are representing organisations will give that push which I think Miss Rathbone said we ought to do to all the Authorities or voluntary organisations that we represent. The point I want to make is the fact that about fifteen years ago I listened in Caxton Hall to such a Conference as we have here this afternoon. I heard there the very same talk as I hear again this afternoon. I am not saying that the people on the platform are not sincere, and I will say nothing about Sir Hilton Young. As for Sir George Newman, I want personally to pay my honour to him for the very fine reports he has sent out. I want to say this — that Dr. Bullough, the Medical Officer of Health for Essex, is as handicapped as Sir George Newman is here to-day and all through the ages it has been the same. I was myself Maternity Chairman of the Barking Urban District Council which is now a Borough. I went from Barking to Pitsea and Vange. Pitsea and Vange come under the Essex (25)
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