MATERNITY WELFARE.
DEATHS AFTER CHILDBIRTH* CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND. LOXDON, April 20. " The only advantage of being Prims Minister," said Mr. Baldwin in opening a maternity hospital at Stourport, Worcestershire, " is that when you say something, however foolish, ,it goes; but I want publicity for every word I say about maternity welfare.
" Britain has lost 150,000 mothers since 1909 because they have been allowed to die with their first baby. Half the women's wards in our hospitals might have been closed down if proper care had been exercised from early pregnancy. We have halved the infantile mortality, while the mothers' death rate is unchanged. We must halve the latter also."
Professor Beckwith Whitehouse decried the conditions under which a Worcestershire woman recently bore a child in a pigsty. An excellent recovery followed, but such things should not be.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 11
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