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Show Prevening Deaths In Child Birth "Decided and accelerated strides" in reducing deaths of mbthers in childbirth are reported by statistics recently published in the journal of the Aimerican Medical Association. The death rate has droplped from 7.0 per thousand .in 1929 to 1937, but Dr. Scott C. Runnels, of Cleveland, says thlat "if obstetric oonditions were as favorable ever the entire United States as are those existing in ia quarter of the country, there a'auld be an annual saving of 2,500 lives." Here is something that the people of -this valley dan attend to without waiting for anybody else. A survey of cihdldbirths would easily reveal sections where educational and medical assistance is needed and, perhaps, save the life icf a mother In the near future. There is no use in becoming excited excit-ed over the 2,500 mothers who dan be saved, all over the United States, if we are not concerned with the one Mother whose life depends upon tolhat we do ourselves. |
