OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 8

OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY.

URGENCY OF APPEAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) STRATFORD, Friday. Commenting upon a statement by the chairman of the Marlborough County Council, that the Obstetrical Society’s appeal was inopportune, as the council had been asked to launch a cancer campaign first, Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the Obstetrical Society, said that far from being inopportune the appeal is most urgent. Seventy-five infants were born daily in the Dominion, and two daily still born, representing the loss of valuable lives. As a result of these births one mother' died every second or third day. As these maternal deaths concern women in the prime of life with young children dependent on them no thinking man or woman could hold that tha mid-wifery appeal was unopportune. She said in fact it was of the utmost- urgency, as funds for the new professor's salary had to be found by May of this year. The standard of mid-wifery work in New Zealand for the next two decades would be determined by the response to tha appeal. The new appointment must be made this year, and the people of the Dominion have the decision in their own hands whether they will have a first-grade teacher at a first-grada salary or a third-grade man at a thirdgrade salary.