MATERNAL MORTALITY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18141, 2 August 1924, Page 16

MATERNAL MORTALITY.

\ „ 10 THIS EDITOB 07 THE I'BHSS. • Sir, —I read "with much interest ill to-day's "Prcgs M the replies of two local doctors to Dr. Trubv King's remarks on obstetrics as .practised in New Zealand. Being a woman, I was glad to 'sec that they are not so enamoured of Nature's methods-as-he is; they do not deny a ; measure of • alleviation to women who are enduring the pangs of child-birth. • I; cannot think that Dr. King's anti-chloroform : campaign wi'.l receive any enthusiastic help from wothers; they know' more of Nature in this respect than he does. Women are not. greatly impressed by. the glib counsel of any man to just I know that I am expressing the opinion of all riiv sex when I say that if Dr. Trub\ King or any other man had to accomplish one, just one, contribution to the birth-rate in the woman's way he would be a whole-hearted advocate of anaesthetics, and plenty of them for the rest of his natural life.—lour-, etc- ' A WOMAN". August Ist. TO THE XDTTOa 0? "THZ PEESS. gir_Dr. Guthrie should be reminded of the bitter experiences of the mothers themselves. One patient in the north nearly lost her life owing to the M.D.'s htirrv to take his wife to the races. As to ""meddlesome garrulity," this is surely better than "criminal silence, Yours, etc, g