Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932
1932-11 1932 1930s 36 pages available a doctor should feel himself under compulsion to use the midwife and not the handy woman. Then there are a great many beds supported by public money and not used for teaching purposes. Those beds should be available for teaching purposes, and they should be bet...
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London : Maternal Mortality Committee,
November 1932
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available a doctor should feel himself under compulsion to use the midwife and not the handy woman. Then there are a great many beds supported by public money and not used for teaching purposes. Those beds should be available for teaching purposes, and they should be better distributed, more where they are needed. There are those who say, "Well, you may have your ante-natal centre, you may have your hospital, and women won't go to them." That is not really quite accurate. They won't come if they are not well organised. We deal with people who have not a great deal of education as we call education, but they have a very sound instinct in knowledge. When these things are well run, when people are out to serve them, they come, and they avail themselves of the facilities offered. When the institutions are being run without any thought for the people themselves who are being served, and with only thought for the people who are doing the service, they do not come and they are quite right. Therefore, if you find in your district that the mothers don't come to the centres, don't sit down and grumble at the mothers, sit down and grumble at yourselves, at your organisations, because the mothers will come if the places are properly run, and the mothers will learn. And as a final plea I would say : Do teach mothercraft to the girls in the school. Teach them how to cook. Teach them how to look after their homes. Teach them how to look after children. It is more important than geography and history to women. We have so much at our disposal. What we require is a more intelligent use of what we have. I propose that we will adopt the resolution which has been placed before the meeting. THE CHAIRMAN: Before finally putting the resolution I want to say two things. I do so now because from experience I know that after the resolution is put, everybody gets up and goes out. One of them is that tea is prepared for everybody who can stay. The other thing I want to say is this. There will be collecting boxes at the door. A Conference of this kind cannot be got up without a great deal of expenditure and the work of the Committee, as it is carried on, entails expenditure, and the Committee has no assured income. The resolution :— "This Conference reaffirms its belief in a comprehensive National Maternity Service and welcomes the recommendations of the Departmental Committee's Final Report on Maternal Mortality which support this Con- (33)
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| is_hierarchy_title | Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932 |
| language | English English |
| physical | TEXT |
| publishDate | November 1932 |
| publisher | London : Maternal Mortality Committee, |
| spellingShingle | Trades Union Congress Maternity and Child Welfare, 1924-1934 Health care Maternal mortality ; Pregnant women Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932 |
| title | Maternal mortality : report of meeting held at Friends' House. Euston Road on November 15, 1932 |
| topic | Trades Union Congress Maternity and Child Welfare, 1924-1934 Health care Maternal mortality ; Pregnant women |
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