MATERNAL MORTALITY
PERCENTAGE IN BRITAIN COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON", August 6. la consequence of there being 3,000 deaths of children and mothers annually, Mr Neville Chamberlain in 1928 appointed a committee on maternal mortality, presided over by Sir George Newman, which has reported that it found that out of 1,400 cases tested 48 per cent, of the deaths were directly preventable, 17 per cent, of which were due to errors of judgment in' practice or treatment by doctors and midwives. More than half the patients were well-to-do or living in good working-class homes. . . The. committee advocates a national maternity service, but in the meantime it is urged that there should be a more efficient system of ante-natal care and a more extended education of medical students in obstetrics.
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Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11
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130MATERNAL MORTALITY Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11
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