Show THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAII Vhy Not Honor Mothers by Making Their Motherhood Safer? 16000 n 10000 'twee" : Connected American with Childbirth Be yory Can j Greatly This ELMO X honoring Women Lose Their Death Rate Reduced © f All Which by Extension Western New n Lives Fifth Education Every Year from Causes Highest in the Civilized Maternal Care in it' By SCOTT WATSON senIS a very pretty timent to set aside one for day of the year mothers and for tele- them letters lending candy and flowers Ctffis So by all means gw Wwe custom-vB“- ‘ do more than not spend an lalamount of money each 5 and put forth an equal Lunt of effort toward mak- motherhood safer than it can't Why jpg today?” is what is many people ire saying when they learn the matthat fact grim ernal death rate is higher in it is in than the United States civilized other finy country in the world I "If we will cut down that death I That they continue “then there in'be more mothers of the future alive to enjoy the flowers candy etc which their sons and tate” them on daughters will send Jlonther’s day How many would there be? 10000 between I "Somewhere and 16000! That’s an estimate of mothers the number of American their lives each year with causes associated from And the tragic part childbirth not die of it is that they need matif they are given adequate lose who ernity care!’’ Here is the maternal the Unitbureau for record of to mortality according ed States Children's 1934 (the latest year ures for all of these for which countries fig- are available) Deaths Per 10000 Live Births Chile Lithuania Northern Ireland Scotland United States Australia Belgium Canada Germany Greece New Zealand Czechoslovakia Irish Free State England and Switzerland Denmark Hungary Estonia Netherlands Norway Japan Italy Uruguay Wales 91 67 63 62 59 59 54 53 50 50 49 43 47 46 46 39 38 34 32 29 28 27 23 The report for 1935 which is not so complete as that for the previous year shows that the Ignited States cut the death rate jdown from 59 to 58 But other countries almost without an exception made a better showing 'Australia cut hers from 58 to 53 unada from 53 to 49 Chile from Czechoslovakia from 48 England and Wales from 48 Estonia from 34 to 33 Netherlands from 30 Northern Ireland from 63 to 53 and Switzerland from 48 to 45 State remained at 47 f“?V£ree fee showed increases in ’ “My Son!’’— That Happy Moment When a Mother Holds Arms Her in the United States higher than it is in nearly a score of other countries? Dr Alan F in his recent book “Into This Universe” gives this answer: we cannot make an “Though exact comparison between the maternal mortality in the United States and that in Euiopean countries we can at least make a rough comparison All who have studied the problem agree that the rate in Holland Norway and Sweden and Denmark is far superior to our own’’ It cannot be because of lack of medical progress he commented “for in the scientific phases of obstetis one of rics America the world’s leaders” It must be due to a difference in the patients themselves and differences in the way that pregnancy and labor are conducted in this country and in other lands Melting Pot of Nations America pays its price for being the melting pot of the nations “The populations of European countries are particularly distinguished for their purity of stock They have bred among themselves for generations and it is believed that breeding within a narrow racial zone makes childbirth safer than the divergent breeding which is so obviously a factor of this new democracy “Furthermore the populations of some European countries are more largely rural than our own" he points out “Our urban populations have a higher maIn the United ternal mortality States communities of over population have 36 per cent higher death raws among mothers than smaller communities” Dr Guttmacher believes that care in the United prenatal States is as widespread as in "UnHolland and Scandinavia fortunately the majority of pregnant women both in this country Respective Mother and Father Learn How to Take r Baby Beforo lit Comes 4 Tate— Denmark from 39 from 27 to 30 and to 71 of these statistic the United th highest on ft I: Question is pcrtl- tentdec?lCeffI?therf day cu a white cama-twh- n bog honor of a moth-tt-dieI It not teem jo oqa I®000 white carna- tSong each mother who Tear during the last bood tenaltr for mother-- h to11 7Sent 100 reat Pain or to khu' iaI r° Of P'S u 172“ the maternal death rate Cart of the and abroad obviously do not recare ceive adequate prenatal especially in the rural districts Facilities to furnish the proper brand of prenatal care to every woman Is one of the major current public health problems" Dr Guttmacher finds that one of the high chief causes of America’ maternal mortality la the large number of labors in this country terminated by operation— Caesarian high forceps delivery etc In New York it has been found dethat about 20 per cent of theSweIn liveries are operative den the interference rate is only 32 per cent in Denmark 45 Holland in per cent while in In Her those areas where it is ascertainable it is per cent The choice of a doctor is according to Dr Guttobmacher and the stetric specialist is the best guarantee of safety “A normal birth is the best recommendation for an obstetrician — much better than a long list of impressive opA completely erations painless labor is often poor obstetrics The relief of pain is humane and necessary but its obliteration occasionally calls for a price in foetal and maternal mortality entirely out of proportion to the value received” Although the maternal mortality record of the United States is a poor one compared with many other countries there are encouraging signs that it will be improved and that the annual celebration of Mother’s day will become increasingly a symbol of safe motherhood in this country A large part of the credit for this is due to the Maternity Center association in New York city which seven or eight years ago launched a nation-wid- e educational campaign to reduce that mortality rate Adequate maternity care is the observation care and instruction by doctors and nurses of mothers from the time the woman thinks she may be pregnant until Bhe is able to resume her regular activities and to care for her new baby according to Hazel Corbin general director of the Maternity Center association Death Rate Reduced Commenting on the work done this which reorganization by duced f the death rate among mothers to 22 per thousand Live births as against 65 in the country as a whole Miss Corbin adds: “Nurses urge each mother to register as early as possible with the private doctor or hospital physician who will deliver her so he may direct her care during pregnancy and know all about her when it comes time for the delivery and care of the baby “The nurses working with the doctors and reporting to them each time they see the mothers visit each mother at regular intervals during pregnancy They help the doctor or midwife during delivery and make regular visits afterward and give or teach some responsible person to the necessary care to give mother and baby as well as see that the household is running smoothly to the' mother can' rest as long as necessary and gradually as the doctor advises resume her usual activities and increased responsibilities “The elm of maternity car is to secure for every mother the minimum of mental and physical discomfort during pregnancy of mental and the maximum physical fitness when the baby the “reward of a well comes baby and the knowledge to care ’ for herself end baby" Here is the evidence that adematernity care aavee quate Louis I Dublin mothers lives Ph D statistician of the MetInsurance Life comparopolitan ny and an expert Internationally - known examined the record of cared for by the 4726 mother Center association Maternity over a period of six years in a certain aection of New York city the results with He compared what happened to mother In the same section of the city not receiving such care This showed that those in the first group have about three times as good a chance to survive as the other r Perhaps some time when Mother’s day is generally recog- mzed as a symbol of safe motherhood in this country it will also be a day for honoring the memo- -' ry of the Southern country surgeon who did more perhaps than any other man to make life safe for mothers J Marion Sims was his name and he was bom in Lancaster county S C on January 25 1813 At the age of twenty Sims spent a year at the Charleston Medical school then seeking a better institution went to the Jefferson Medical college in PhilaHe was graduated from delphia there among the leader? in his class in 1835 but his early career as a doctor was a failure Finally Ala he moved to Montgomery where he opened a small hospital in which he made the discovery that was to give him his claim to fame At that time the woman who had a child was in more danger than was the average soldier goAlmost invariaing into battle bly childbirth resulted in certain wounds the commonest of which It fistula was a left the woman in a loathsome condition and sentenced her to a lifetime of misery since there was apparently no cure for it In 1845 three of Sims’ friends reported to him that they had slave women suffering from this After examining one condition Sim? was unfortunates convinced that an operation could cure the fistula But his first operation failed as did the second and the third In fact during a period of four years Sims performed 39 of these operations but none was successful however determination His brought its reward — his fortieth operation was a success! Certain now that his technique was established Sims began trying to discover why his previous In each operations had failed case there had been infection from his use of silk ligatures in When he sewing up the wounds used silver wire instead there was no infection and the woman The to health was restored name of this negro woman who had endured 40 operations in four years has not been preserved but all mothers white and black owe PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOPED print Sdoubl or four dhoti tQljirfTtunntfi NORTMWCST Fer Dakel treat A YORK— Gen Saturmo the feudal chieftain of the movprovince of San Luis l’otosi is No ing out of the ruck as the to the menace Cardenas administration according to all one can this at glean crossroads A friend of this writer an oil operator who has reasons for remainbrings news from ing anonymous Mexico that the big swarthy Mestion t zo the most conspicuous the state agrarian program is gaining a following in a long sweep of and in this Mexican provinces view dissident factions will swarm in behind him if there is a further drift toward civil war He" has the friendship and backing of various foreign interests according to my informant and around his huge stolid grim person there is gathering powerful opposition to the gov- NEW This Cheerful Peasant Has Appliqued Apron ernment He is a fighting man who served his apprenticeship in vas before the rious minor big upheaval of 1910 when old He Diaz was overthrown but called himjoined this revolt self a “conservative revolutionist" He nlever liquidated his personal army now numbering about 10000 and hra autocratic state is firmly encysted in the concomstitutional When monwealth he resigned as secretary of agriculture on August 16 of last year it was reported that he had made a truce with President Cardenas but that talk seems to have been pre- A brand new idea applique scraps of print to form the aprons for these gay embroidered peasant figures which cheer up kitchen Pattern 1679 contains a towels transfer pattern of seven motifa averaging 6 by 7 Vs inches and apcolor sugplique pattern pieces of all illustrations gestions stitches used material requirements Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to the Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York NERVOUS? 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