Show CHALLENGE 4 IT IT T IS a startling report that the New York Academy of Medicine has turned in on death rates of mothers in childbirth It has found that two out of three such deaths in New York during the last years yeara could id d should have been boon avoided This Th s is a challenge to the medical prates prates- aion because 61 per cent of the avoidable deaths can be laid to the responsibility of the profession and it itis is a challenge to the public o- o because people in general need to be taught to demand the sort of care that is necessary The maternal death rate is higher in America America America Amer Amer- ica than in other countries of comparable rank fl flie TJi e challenge presented by the academy's academY ra- ra II g 1 I 1 I |