Maternal Mortality : Report June, 1932
1932-06 1932 1930s 20 pages When the resolution was passed pledges had been given which indicated that a comprehensive scheme for a National Maternity Service was within measurable distance of fulfilment. Since then, however, circumstances of such financial stringency have arisen both nationally an...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : The Maternal Mortality Committee
June 1932
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| Summary: | 1932-06
1932
1930s
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When the resolution was passed pledges had been given which indicated that a comprehensive scheme for a National Maternity Service was within measurable distance of fulfilment. Since then, however, circumstances of such financial stringency have arisen both nationally and internationally, that there seems no immediate possibility of the redemption of the larger pledges. Without abandoning our conviction that any expenditure on motherhood is a national investment, we accept the limitations imposed on us for the moment with the proviso that they shall not entail any limitation of the development of the present services, which, as we have often pointed out, constitute in the powers given by Parliament to the Local Authorities the nucleus of a National Maternity Service. Our business is to work for the expansion and the encouragement of these services till the moment comes when they can be expanded into a National Maternity Service such as that envisaged by the Interim Report of the Departmental Committee on Maternal Mortality and by the British Medical Association. For this reason our work since our last Conference has been concentrated on furnishing our correspondents with information on the need for a development in the Maternity Services of the Local Authorities so that they might encourage and assist that development in every way. The following steps were taken : the then Minister (the Rt. Hon. A. Greenwood, M.P.), in pursuance of the pledges given at our Conference, circulated to all the Maternity and Child Welfare Authorities a Memorandum and Circular (Circular 1167) showing the powers the Local Authorities could operate. Mr. Greenwood urged the Authorities to put their powers into force and asked to be informed as early as practicable of the action which the Councils decided to take after consideration of the Circular and Memorandum. The Circular and Memorandum were sent to all Correspondents. Questions suggested by us, and put in the House of Commons, brought up to date the number of replies received to that Circular. In particular, the question put by Dr. Marion Phillips in June, 1931, elicited a full return of the Authorities from whom replies had been received and also all those who had not replied. This Question and Answer was also sent to our Correspondents. The list showed that only 189 out of approximately 400 Authorities had replied. Later we drew our Correspondents' attention to Sir George Newman's Report for 1929, giving the twelve Counties and Boroughs which showed the highest rates per 1,000 births (1923-1927), and pointing out that the Counties with the highest rate of Maternal Mortality in those years were approximately the same as those for 1929. (4)
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