Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing the Society, famed Obstetrician Dr. Arnaldo de Moraes said: "One out of every 133 mothers in Rio de Janeiro die in childbirth. True this compares favorably with the mortality of soldiers, in the Great War, when one out of every 50 died. But gentlemen!-we must make it possible for Brazilian mothers to march joyously to maternity, without the forebodings of soldiers marching to battle...
...babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...
...mothers of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his half brother, Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, both died in childbirth.* Last week this fact was thought to account for the extraordinary warmth and fervor with which the Minister of Health addressed the House of Commons on the twin themes of maternal mortality and midwifery...
Customarily the manner of the Right Honorable Neville Chamberlain is cold and his delivery precise, but none could doubt his intense emotion when he cried: "It is a very terrible thing to think that today out of every 250 mothers, one dies in childbirth, and that this state of things has persisted for the last 20 years. . . . Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries...
...Ministry of Health of two Departmental Committees of Inquiry, one to perform comprehensive field research upon maternal mortality, and the other to investigate "the status, training and remuneration of midwives . . . upon whom, after all, the success or failure of any efforts we may make to improve the conditions of childbirth must largely depend...