Memorandum on maternal mortality
1928-07 1928 1920s 10 pages - 8 - general practitioners and hospitals of the area. The most important link between the clinic and the patient is the health visitor and the local authorities should ensure the smooth working of its scheme by appointing an adequate number of health visitors to follow...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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July 1928
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/0FB2788D-41FE-4D5E-B3FF-627073FDA940 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/800EAD61-BDD3-4369-A5A0-807FD4A9E5B9 |
| Summary: | 1928-07
1928
1920s
10 pages
- 8 - general practitioners and hospitals of the area. The most important link between the clinic and the patient is the health visitor and the local authorities should ensure the smooth working of its scheme by appointing an adequate number of health visitors to follow up the patients and see that all instructions are carried out. (b) Post-natal centres. Those in charge of clinics should ensure that mothers are seen by the medical officer after confinement. Much can be done to reduce maternal mortality by systematic post-natal examination; advice for slight conditions can be given and graver causes of ill-health can be found, and the patient referred to her own doctor or a specialist at hospital for the appropriate treatment. No patient should be discharged from the clinic until there is as near a return to the normal state of health as possible. (c) Transport. In scattered rural districts, where the death rate is highest, there may be great difficulty for the patients in travelling to and from the clinics, in fact it may be impossible to make the mothers attend for this reason. In such areas either transport facilities should be provided for the patients or the medical officer and health visitor should periodically visit the villages and thus bring the maternity service in touch with every home. 2) DOMICILIARY SERVICES (a) The provision of a midwife. The local authority should be the responsible body for assuring that each district in its area has an adequate supply of midwives. Ultimately the local authority should provide a service of midwives allowing within limits a free choice of midwife by patient. By this means the local authority would secure control over the midwives and would improve their conditions of labour and prospects. Midwives may either be in charge of a case or they may act as maternity nurse to a patient attended by her doctor. All midwives should be on the telephone. In cases requiring medical
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