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Show THE BULLETIN All Mothers by Why Not Honor Making Their Motherhood Safer? Wcmcn Lcse Their Lives Every Year from Causes Connected with Childbirth; This Death Rate, Which Is Fifth Highest in the Civilized World, Can Be Greatly Reduced by Extension of Education in Maternal Care. Between 10,000 and 16,000 American 0 We item Kewapaper Union. By . ELMO SCOTT WATSON i C T T IS a very pretty sen-- I timent to set aside one day of the year for honoring mothers and for sending them letters, telegrams, flowers, candy and other gifts. So, by all means, let us keep this custom. But why can't we do more than that? Why not spend an equal amount of money each year and put forth ah equal amount of effort toward making motherhood safer than it is today? That is what many people are saying when they learn the grim fact that the maternal death rate is higher in the United States than it is in civilized any other country in the world. vesico-vagin- so-call- ed If we will cut down that death rate, they continue, then there will be more mothers of the future alive to enjoy the flowers, candy, etc., which their sons and daughters will send them on Monlhers day. How many would there beT Somewhere between 10,000 and 16,000! Thats an estimate of the number of American mothers who lose their lives each year from causes associated with childbirth. And the tragic part of it is that they need not die if they are given adequate maternity care! Here is the record of maternal mortality, according to the United States Children's bureau, for 1934 (the latest year for which figures for all of these countries are available) : Deaths Per 10,000 Live Births. 91 Chile 67 Lithuania Northern Ireland .... 63 62 Scotland 59 United States 59 Australia i 54 Belgium 53 Canada 50 Germany Greece ............. 50 New Zealand 49 48 Czechoslovakia 47 Irish Free State England and Wales .. 46 Switzerland 46 Denmark 39 38 Hungary Estonia 34 32 Netherlands 29 Norway ............. Japan 28 27 23 Italy Uruguay The report for 1935, which is not so complete as that for the previous year, shows that the United States cut the death rate down from 59 to 58. But other countries almost without an exception, made a better showing. Australia cut hers from 58 to 53; Canada from 53 to 49; Chile from 91 to 86; Czechoslovakia from 48 to 46; England and Wales from 46 to 41; Estonia from 34 to 33; Netherlands from 32 to 30; Northern Ireland from 63 to 55; and Switzerland from' 46 to 45. Irish Free State remained at 47 and three showed increases in : i ''"Vi' "My Son! ' ' fk ' ' That Happy Moment When a Mother Holds in Her Arms Her First-born. in the United States higher than it is in nearly a score of other r, countries? Dr. Alan F. in his recent book, Into This Universe," gives this anGutt-mache- swer: Though we cannot make an exact comparison between the maternal mortality in the United States and that in Eurbpean 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 obstetrics America is one of the worlds 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 maternal mortality. In the United States, communities of over population have 36 per cent higher death rates among mothers than smaller communities." Dr. Guttmacher believes that prenatal care in the United States is as widespread as in Holland and Scandinavia. Unfortunately, the majority of pregnant women both in this country 10,-0- 00 A Prospective Mother and Father Learn How to Take Care of the Baby Before He Comes. the death rate Denmark from 39 to 40, Italy from 27 to 30 and Lithuania from 67 to 71. In the light of these statistics and the fact that the United States still is fourth highest on the list, this question is pertinent: Since Mother's day customs decree that a white carnation be worn in honor of a mother who has died, does it not seem that 10,000 to 16,000 white carnations, one for each mother who needlessly died during the last year as a penalty for motherhood, represent too great a toll In pain and sorrow to be paid for by sentiment alone? Why is the maternal death rate Perhaps some time, when Mother's day is generally recog-- , nized as a symbol of safe motherhood in this country, it will also be a day for honoring the memory of the Southern country surgeon who did more perhaps than any otficr man to make life safer for mothers. J. Marion Sims was his name and he was born in Lancaster county, S. C., on January 25, 1813. At the age of twenty Sima spent a year at the Charleston Medical school, then, seeking a better institution, went to the Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia. He was graduated from there among the leaders in his class in 1835 but his early career as a doctor was a failure. Finally he moved to Montgomery, Ala., 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 going into battle. Almost invariably childbirth resulted in certain wounds, the commonest of which was a fistula. It 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 condition. After examining one of these unfortunates, Sims was 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. His determination, however, brought its reward his fortieth operation was a success! Certain now that his technique was established, Sims began trying to discover why his previous operations had failed. In each case there had been infection from his use of silk ligatures in sewing up the wounds. When he used silver wire instead there was no infection and the woman was restored to health. The name of this negro woman who had endured 40 operations in four years has not been preserved but all mothers, white and black, owe and abroad obviously do not receive adequate prenatal care, 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 chief causes of America's high maternal mortality is the large number of labors in this country terminated by operation Caesarian, high forceps delivery, etc In New York, it lies been found that about 20 per eent of the deliveries are operative. In Sweden the interference rate is only 3.2 per cent; in Denmark. 4.5 per cent; while in Holland, in those areas where it is ascertainable, it is 1 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 operations. A completely 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 she 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 by this organization which reduced the death rate among mothers to 2.2 per thousand live births as against 6.5 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. Tiie 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 give, the necessary care to mother and bby, as well as see that the household is running smoothly so the mother can rest as long as necessary, and gradually, as the doctor advises, resume her usual activities and increased responsibilities. The aim of maternity care is to secure for every mother the minimum of mental and physical discomfort during pregnancy; the maximum of mental and physical fitness when the baby comes; the reward of a well baby and the knowledge to care for herself and baby." Here is the evidence that adecare saves quate maternity mothers' lives. Louis I. Dublin, Ph. D., statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, and an expert internationally known, examined the records of 4,726 mothers cared for by the Center association Maternity over a period of six years in a certain section of New York city. He compared the results with what happened to mothers 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 tnc others. well-train- al Pm . .JirnpiB WHOS NEWS HOTELS HOTEL PLANDUMK, BALT LAKH II M la 12.00 4th Be. Blele-Re- tcs CLEAN GUIET RESPECTABLE Whaa la MENU NEVADA atop at tka HOTEL GOLDEN Kcaa'a largest aad aiest papalar hotel THE WILSON HOTEL Kates Tla up. ta tha heart if the city Salt Lata II E. fn4 Be. St. THIS WEEK SEEDS By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK. Gen. Satumio Ce-- 1 dillo, the feudal chieftain of the province of San Luis Potosi, is mov- 1 ing out of the ruck as the No. menace to the Gen. Ceaillo Cardenas adminis-N1 Menace tration, according o. toCardenae glean u on at this Law Prices aa Gardca and Field Seeds; All varieties New stork MAX FIELD FEEI Salt Lake and Marrav A COAL CO. ALCOHOL TREATMENT aceompHshed without drain. 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Price lOe MacDONALD-- THE Swiss trap-drumme- the the circus bell-ringe- rs, one-arm- r, ed and all such supposedly! busy and preoccupied people arej just snoozing along' compared to Dr. Hue Nothing Morris Fishbein, IMS AtIaaJriiitjaCfcBImhemfanjNjJ Tap-Drumm- er on Fishbein goal-keep- New I a 11 carpet rug 114.11 : Uaed Monarch aaai rungs 1U.S0 ; Used mohair living room art 111.10: Uara upright piano 149.14. Bargain Basement Western Fnrultan Co. 1M South State - - - Salt Lake City SONGS er medical against quacks, heresies, panaceas, innovaa lasting debt of gratitude to her tions, utopias and unsanctioned exand to the surgeon who refused to periments. When Dr. James H. Means, retirbe defeated. Sims had been a sick man far ing president of the American Colyears. His wife urged him to lege of Physicians, drops a few promove to the North in the hope vocative words about that his health might be im- - medical reform, they scarcely hit a proved. So with a few thousand press wire before Dr. Fishbein dollars he went to New York. He swings a devastating found great difficulty, however, Dr. Fishbein is elaborately in establishing a practice, even equipped and organized for though his name was well known to other physicians. timely blasts against any encroachment of subsidized or soSo when he proposed the idea cialised medicine. As editor of of a hospital for women only, he the Journal of the American found little support for it. FinalMedical Association, with headly in 1855 the Womans Hospital of the City of New York was orquarters in Chicago, he commands a large staff iff secreganized. But, such was the prejudice against the idea, that he taries and' assistant secretaries, was called a quack and a humtrained like a fast ball club to field any challenge or dissent. bug and his hospital a fraud. But he persisted and it finally was acHe is undoubtedly the most highly d institucepted as a publicized medical man in America. tion. the journal, he reaches the In 1861 Sims made his first trip Through nation's 125,000 doctors; through to Europe. There this prophet the more popularized medical without honor- in his own counhe carries his message publication, try" was welcomed by the lead- to many more thousands and is a of ing physicians England, prolific writer for national magaFrance and Belgium and some zines. of their greatest surgeons He wolfs hundreds of exchanges watched with admiration his skill and eight or ten medical books evin performing operations. ery week, lecWhile he was in France the tures, speaks on Empress Eugenie fell ill and Nathe radio, reviews poleon III sent for this great books, American doctor. His treatment books and, was successful and the empress enjoying a fight, keeps up always a fast regained her health. The counrunning fight against the quacks. in South Carolina had try doctor When he finished Rush Medical come a long way slave women school, at the age of twenty-threhad once been his patients, now he had the choice of becoming a he was the honored guest of an for the state of Indiana, pathologist in Old an World emperor palace. or an assistant editor of the JourBy this time Sims' renown had nal of Medicine. of to all en Europe-evparts spread He chose the latter. Mrs. Fishto his native land. In 1876 bein, who was Anna Mantel, the American Medical associaserves through the war with tion elected him its president. him, traveling with him and asFortune as well as fame had sisting him in the biggest and come to him and in 1883 he busiest job of medical journalbought a site for a home in ism ever attempted. They have Washington. children. three Sims planned one more trip to Dr. Fishbein, plump, affable, Europe before settling down in bald, and forty-eigWashington. But as he was preyears old, also paring to sail he was delayed to is deep in art, music, literature, the perform an operation on the wife drama, bridge, golf and public afn of one of America's fairs, exercising a sharp critical citizens. Returning from her bed- judgment in all these fields. lie is side one rainy nght he was taka magnificent demonstration of how en ill with a chill and he died a knowing doctor can build up his dav. the basal metabolisms. self-impos- ed counter-assertio- n. far son, FURNITURE ring-mast- er SONGS WANTED AT ONCE Paema witk a wlthaut muni far aantaal I14M.M. GARFIELD BLDG.. Ban Fnaciaes EARTAGS tag guar. Writ to Italy free Dept. W, la tarmauatalu Stamp aamplaa. 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