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Show Saving Mothers and Babies Is Important Red Cross Task Saving mothers' lives and better babies ba-bies were important features during the past year of ' the Public Health, Nursing Service of the American Red Cross. About four-fifths of the 794 nurses in the Red Cross work, made more than 100,000 prenatal and maternal' mater-nal' visits, in addition to assisting doctors in the examination of 1,309,409 school children. Statistics reveal that the lives of two out of three American women who die in maternity cases could be saved If they received proper medical and nursing care. As more than 15,000 women die in the United States each year from various diseases of the maternal ma-ternal state, this means that more than 10,000 of these deaths are preventable. |