MATERNITY DEATH RATE
♦ MERITS OF HOSPITAL AND HOME AMERICAN OBSTETRICIAN’S OPINION (Received November 13, 7.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, November 12. Dr. Joseph de Lee, an internation-ally-known obstetrician and founder of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, which has one of the lowest maternity death rates in the world, on the occasion of his own sixtyseventh birthday anniversary, declared: “Most women are better off giving birth in their homes instead of hospitals.” Commenting on surveys showing that midwives had fewer deaths than hospitals, he said midwives did not interfere with normal birth, and the mothers were not exposed to fevers and communicable diseases as in a general hospital. “Only doctors of long experience in metropolitan maternity centres can handle complications properly,” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 15
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