MOTHERHOOD PERIL
TOX/EMIA FREQUENT N.Z. COMPLICATION LARGE MEAT CONSUMPTION A FACTOR [Pin United Phess Association.] STRATFORD, September 28. There was a large attendance oi Taranaki doctors at Stratford to hear an address by Mr Bright Banister on the canso and treatment of toxieima associated 1 with approaching motherhood. Ho said this condition was a frequent complication in maternity cases 'in the Dominion, and he expressed the opinion that the largo moat consumption of the average ' y Zealand woman was one of sev factors causin' l, the increase in the . ' w. Ho emphasised that it was impery that expectant mothers should me' .lously follow the advice of their doctors, especially in regard to dietetic treatment. Mr Banister stated that this complication of motherhood was causing more maternal deaths in the Dominion yearly than puerperal sepsis, which was a complication more dreaded by most women. Mr Banister added that toxaemia disorder Could largely avoided by adequate ante-natal care and the patients’ obedience to the doctors’ instructions.
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Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 15
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164MOTHERHOOD PERIL Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 15
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