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After reading your transcript of Doctors DeLee and Siedentopf "Facts of Birth." . . . I am quite sure that a goodly number of your 400,000 would prefer to remain at home, or perhaps not go through the performance at all. The statement, "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery," has to be taken with more than a grain of salt. I feel it very bad propaganda to unduly alarm the prospective maternal American public as to the safety of hospital delivery...
...profession of being a mother today is more dangerous than the average masculine profession, with all its risks." ¶ "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery." ¶ "Six thousand women die annually in the U. S. from puerperal infection." ¶ "In the ten largest [U. S.] cities hospitalization now ranges between 56% and 85% of all live births. The majority of [the nation's] births, however, still take place at home, 1,500,000 out of the 2,200,000 annually." ¶ "These statements certainly are astonishing. However, if we would really adopt...
...they dare make this enormous addition to the cost of medicine essential to the health of our poorest children? But there it stands on the records of Ottawa, signed in behalf of this country by Stanley Baldwin...
TIME did not imply that all western farmers are shiftless, did say that many of the Iowa picketers were such. Observers variously described the picketers as youngsters "just blowed in"; as former farm-owners reduced, because of debts, to the class of farm laborers; as the poorest class of farm tenants.-ED. Seiberling's Cuddly Toodles Sirs...
...University riders, generally rated as the poorest team in the tournament on the basis of their previous record, have thus far staged an extraordinary comeback, featuring Nicholas, Dillingham, and Rumsey as the backbone of the team. Dillingham has just been getting back into form after a long illness during the winter...