"INADEQUATE METHODS"

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

"INADEQUATE METHODS"

MESTKW OF OBSTETRICS. bterixrence or relative^. STUDENTS IX .MIDWIFERY. Df. Henry Jellett. consulting obstetMan to the Department <>f Health, in ji» annual report, stresses t lie need for iproted training of medical students in *lfery. In referring to a conference tad iast November with the faculty t|i# school of modicine, Otago UniDr. Jellett says the faculty u gMy recognised the inadequacy of methods, due largely to the need Lrv^"^ 0 f:l 'nical material and nccesta »« UI Tfl<> - V recognised that when re *' or the training of es commenced to bear fruit, the •rtirnf W • better equipped in the tin e ni 'dwiferv than would *fious «t CB f P™ ct 'tjoner. Tins was a t a . . because the midrtnk»hlra,l,ln?, Was onlv designed to ° °j c ' onflu, ' ti "S 11 "«>' <nal "'ndtMlift a* . eases being Williler on ot le medical pracUtil! le t ' le . ed, . lt ' at ' ori ." f the medical pracreport "tt, " lsuflic ' ll> " t -" continues the ""'lSenoiir ,'* t0 with he ?j C ' eß,and tH hel l' him «" 11 tl.o„. to fill'l i°" g ° tl,l ' r be led °" , ra L dif ' al pro- ,° hls 'gHorance of the Wkfu procedures which would °f this on Bcrve<l his purpose. The effect '* Okvious" C rat<J TDaternu ' mortality Bt 2 tes tllat in at i( ' ast 80 of » mMiL? 011 e,nents the at tendance 'Milt w ® 11 Practitioner is not essen'"'ll them a t ( J, Vlß f. blc ,llat wherever posand Yf v? * mt ' dit ' al l' nu '- '"'Uffloienf it. " ls education was {**<*«»«. , P ri "ci pil l reason for his * Wtter il°? t, , arid il wou 'd probably 1 t . he . 9,,0u1d " ot be in Rtern«| m w . as 1,11 possible to lower eduraiti without improved Provide thn*, an d ' l w '»s impossible education «ith the re!S*l available in the inferred £ the Stance p, need for financial * u " h l'^ision "X*t, but k matter for the GovernP° inted the that TSorlti*7 Wealthv individual. nece SS -L Wl,hn 8 a "d able to assist "It do*/* Vl* broi, S ht to) omß a University oi financial L • K is more suitable

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Touching on the continued excessive use of forceps. Dr. Jellett remarked that the medical and nursing professions were not alone responsible for unsatisfactory conditions. One practitioner could give ti patient advice which might save her life or health, but fifty practitioners could not make her take it if her mental equipment were insuflicient to enable her to appreciate its importance. He also referred to the injudicious interference of relatives and friends, which might mean the conversion of a normal case into a calamity. "It is therefore very necessary." he concluded, ''that, tilt; public should remember that to the unavoidable consequences of disease and deformity, and of the sometimes avoidable consequences due to insufficient medical or nursing education, there must be added the wholly avoidable misfortunes resulting from misguided and clamorous relations. neglected advice, and unsuitable surroundings."

He strongly recommended extension of the ante-natal clinics systeii), remarking that tliey were as necessary in s ■ •!> as in large towns.