MATERNITY SERVICES
MITIGATION OF MORTALITY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 28. (Received January 29, at 1.15 p.m.) Sir Ernest Graham Little, in a House of Commons debate on a _ measure concerning maternity services in Scotland, said Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London had conducted during the past year observations into the prospect of mitigating mortality from puerperal fever." A new drug had been tried, with remarkable results, reducing mortality from 22 to 2 per cent. The experiment could be conducted only in a well-equipped maternity hospital under the most skilled supervision.
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Evening Star, Issue 22559, 29 January 1937, Page 8
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