MOTHERS SACRIFICED
MEDICAL MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY DEATHS NEARLY HALF PREVENTABLE LONDON, Wednesday. In consequence of the deaths of 3,000 children and mothers annually Mr. Neville Chamberlain in 1928, when he was Minister of Health, appointed a Committee on Maternal Mortality presided over by Sir George Newman. The committee has now issued its report. This says it was found that out of 1,400 cases tested 48 per cent, of the deaths were directly preventable, 17 per cent, of which 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 working-class homes. The committee advocates a national maternity service and in the meantime urges a more efficient system of antenatal care and more extended education of medical students in obstetrics
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 9
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134MOTHERS SACRIFICED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 9
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