HOW ANTE-NATAL CARE BEGAN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14713, 3 July 1948, Page 5

HOW ANTE-NATAL CARE BEGAN

IDR READING'S ADDRESS TO PLUNKET SOCIETY A very interesting address on the formation of ante-natal clinics and how they had been built up over the years, was given by Dr M. J. Reading to members of the Tauranga branch of the Plunket Society at its annual meeting, She described how wrote on the care of expectant mothers and of how, in later years, many buildings were erected for their care, these institutions housing beds containing frcm two to five women. In 1911 th<» Americans threw open to the public an anti-natal outoatient clinic for instruction in health before and after the birth of bpMes. Dr Reading concluded by saying that the maternal death rate had stood at a certain percentage a thousand for some years now, and and not been eliminated any further. So much had been done in the last 25 years that people were ant to sit back and pat themselves on the back, but there will always be new discoveries, she concluded.