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Show LIS TO HELP iRiE WOMEN iBmm State Asked to Co-operate With Government in Protecting Pro-tecting Maternity MAV rbriK Dec :Jm Knact inert of laws iii a;i '..( s to cooperate with the fe(j..i;,i u , , v ,. rn ment lii protecting I maternity, partiuularly amouc work-mg work-mg womeni hjs urged by speaki re ill Hi, closing Kos?lons ,,f thi; foiir-;., foiir-;., mli annual meeting or tin American Ameri-can Association of Labor Legislation 1 ll'.'l I OlJ.l Restriction of erhnloyinent, cash1 I bent-flta to offset loss of earning and ; fr8 medical care were declared ij be the pressing .need ; reoni ar Increasing mortality rate f.r both niotber ii iid infar.tv Dr." Riciiard Holt, gem .a I director of i lie American Child tTygleno association, asso-ciation, said it was "a cpndejnnlng fact thai In ihts enlightened njri ,n I prosperous country more women between be-tween i", and i years of ago lost their lives from ondlllou connected With child birth ihau from any other cause except tuberculosis." .More than St, 000 mothers died under ih( conditions con-ditions In the I'nlteri states during! the past y r he said. 'What would the government rio." I Dr. F.olt aaked. "If 20,000 or more persons died In this country 'n ono year from emajlpbi or bubonic! plague?" |