IMPORTANT REPORT.
MATERNAL MORTALITY IN BRITAIN. LIVES THAT MIGHT BE SAVED. COMMITTEE’S FINDINGS. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Wednesday, 7:50 p.m.) LONDON, August 6. In consequence of the deaths of three thousand mothers and children annually, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in 1328, when he was Minister of Health, appointed a committee on maternal mortality, presided over by Sir George Newman. The committee has reported that it found that out of 1400 cases tested, forty-eight per cent, of the deaths were directly preventable. Seventeen per cent, of these 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 workingclass homes. The committee advocates a_ national maternity service. Meantime, it urges a more efficient system of ante-natal care, and more extended education for medical students in obstetrics.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 August 1930, Page 5
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