MATERNAL MORTALITY
THOUGH New Zealand’s infantile mortality figures have set an example to the world, her maternal mortality is far too high for a healthy country; a fact which has long caused much anxiety. One of the factors blamed for this is the lack of speciallytrained obstetricians. While there has been specialisation in the study of diseases of the eyes, the ears, throat and nose, the heart, chest, and so on, specialisation has been rather neglected so far as medical care in the all-important function of motherhood is concerned. There are signs, however, that this will be changed. In Sydney, indeed, it has been changed. There is now a Chair of Obstetrics at Sydney University, and medical students there are required to devote about five times as much study to midwifery as under the former syllabus. A plea is now being made for the establishment of such a chair at Otago University, and not before time. If maternal mortality figures are to be reduced, haphazard Sairey-Gamp midwifery must be supplanted by all the skill that medical science can offer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 8
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179MATERNAL MORTALITY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 8
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