Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1930, Page 7

-~ SAFERMOTHERHOOD IS SHOWN BY TEST New York Experiment Held Proof Pre-Natal Care Will Cut Mortality. BY RALPH W. LOBENSTINE, M. D. Consulting director Obstetric and Gyne: | ogical York Nusery and ld’s Hospital, and a member of sev- eral_organizations and committees con- cerned with the improvement of mater- nity care in the United States. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 23 (N.AN.| A)—There is a saying in the Italian | that nothing lasts 100 years. In America few things last 25 years. | ‘Within that period cities have been | built and rebuilt, and their survival made possible by successful measures 1o safeguard the population against the perils of congestion. i Typhoid fever, smallpox and diph- | theria have yielded to scientific contro in the last quarter century, and tuber- | culosis has been reduced to half its | toll,-as almost every one knows. But | the death rate from causes connected | with maternity has not been lowered at | all during the period for which records | are available. Today our maternal * death rate is said to be the highest in the civilized world, and no less an suthority than United States Surg. | Gen. Cumming uses the word ‘“dis- graceful” in this connection. Is this & condition in which we may expect no change? For some time many of those inter- ested in the problem have believed not. Our belief has been founded on confi- dence in the results from teaching the public the value of adequate ma- ternity care. But our conclusions have been subject to_the criticism that they were based on limited observation and therefore were more or less academic. Seek Data for Comparison. Statisticians of authority ask such embarrassing questions as, “Can you show us complete records of enough women who availed themselves of ade- quate maternity care, spread over a sufficient period of years, to be typical and what we call ‘significant’? Can you further show us results for cases in the same locality who did not avail themselves of such care. so we can | make a comparison of what happened to the first class and what happened to | the second or ‘control group?” Until now our answer has been un- satisfactory. But those who have e amined a report based on 4,726 cases cared for by the Maternity Center As- socialism in New York City feel that the answer is at hand. These records have been analyzed by Dr. Louis I Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan | Life Insurance Co., whose report has| just been submitted to the officers of the | Maternity Center Association. Report Gives Facts. The report presents these important facts: 1. Among 41126 cases cared for by| the association during a period of six | years, the death rate was 2.2 per 1,000 live births. (Denmark’s rate, lowest for | any country in the world, is 26, the United States’ as a whole is 6.5.) 2. These mothers lived in a part of New York City ealled the Bellevue- Yorkville section, which had a popula- tion of 152,947, according to the census | of 1930. Among mothers in the section | ot cared for by the Maternity Center | Association the rate was 6.2—nearly three times that of the group receiving such care, though a little lower than! the national death rate. | 3. For the country as a whole, the results achieved have definite implica- tions. If all mothers knew what con- stitutes adequate care, and it could be made available to them, 10,000 of the 16,500 women who die annually might be saved and 30,000 babies that die each year before they are one month old | could live. The need of the future is| to put into operation the machinery | which has been demonstrated over three | years to be effective. Examine Vital Points. Let us examine some of the vital ints characteristic of the work with ese cases and offer comments on | them: | (a) Expectant mothers were urged to seek medical and nursing care as early as possible. According to Dr. Dublin’s analysis, the benefits increased directly with the length of time the women were under observation. | (b) Women were helped in arranging for medical and nursing assistance at the time of the birth of their children | and for six weeks afterward. Generally speaking, poor or insufficient care is too often the cause of morbidity and mor- tality both to mother and child. While such was not the case among this group, it is only fair to point out that the ex-| cellent results are in part to be credited | to the exceptional concentration of medical facilities to be found in New | York Cit; | The services of the Maternity Center Association, if duplicated in other parts of the country, must not be expected | to produce at once the same gratifying vesults. Other communities, especially rTural, setting out to remedy their ma- ternity conditions, will do well to estab- lish local maternity hospitals with trained, full-time obstetricians in charge. Mothers Urged to Regisfer. (c) Each expectant mother was urged to register as early as possible with the doctor or hospital physician who was tc attend her; nurses saw to it that she Ppresented herself to the doctor for ex- amination'at stipalated intervals. ¥rom | time to time nurses observed and ques- | tioned the mothers and kept the doctor | or hospital informed by sending detailed reports of the findings of each visit Nurses taught mothers hygiene, what to | eat, what to wear, how to liv | 1f one were asked, “What has been the | | As “The Star Spangied Banner” was played the President of Venezuela and his cabinet Those visible in the group at left are, ; Intriago Chacin, minister of foreign affairs; Gen. J. M. ster of war and navy, and Dr. G. Torres, minister of industry. new statue of Henry Clay was unveiled Juan Bautista Perez, Dr. Ruben Gonzalez, minister of inter io; Garcia, minister of finance; Gen. Tobias Uribe, mi _ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, R MEMORY OF AMERICAN e 4 o - s 3 ] VENEZUELAN NOTABLES HONO! in Caracas. bared their heads while the starting at right: President | principal contribution of the Maternity | Center Association to the results shown | by Dr. Dublin's report?” the answer might be that this organization went into a certain section and established centers to teach people there the need for adequate maternity care, and, work- ing with hospitals, physicians and mid- wives, procured that care for them. Of course, no single pattern of machinery is adapted for use everywhere, and in different parts of the country different facilities are needed. But everywhere the condition precedent to improvement is an informed public demanding ade- quate maternity care. ‘What use will parents make of this | outstanding report bearing the author- ity of an internationally known statis- tician? There is nothing strikingly new in the methods disclosed. It is only the evidence presented by the record as a whole that is new. Perhaps the Maternity Center Asso- ciation has been successful in a high degree in persuading women to accept and follow the regulations prescribed and approved by medical boards of many institutions of recognized stand- ing, as well as in aiding women to get proper medical care. But public health authorities have been telling people these things for a long time, with no appreciable effect on the vital statistics. Now that this oconvincing evidence transcends mere advice, will other com- munities effect procedures to save women in the most important crisis in their lives? Ttaly, Denmark and five other nations have maternal death rates less than half that of the United States, which is twenty-second on the roster of the | nations of the world. In many of these countries the results have commonly been achieved by plenary legislation re- quiring obedience. In the United States improvement cannot be expected by such drastic action without the ac- quiescence of popular opinion. Little progress in this direction is to be noted. We have already refused to address ourselves adequately to this problem for at least 25 years—a quarter of the proverbial hundred. If we are to im- prove conditions we must face them, not rationalize. The humiliating con- clusion from Dr. Dublin’s report—that this national disgrace can be removed when, as a people, we set out to remove | 885 it—is’ inescapable. | from one to three days would be re- (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- Daper Alliance.) SQUARE DEAL MARKET 1428 7th St. N.W. Norlh 10161 Wholesale and Washington’s Popular Markets TURKEYS CHICKENS DUCKS HAM Eggs PORK LOIN ROAST SHOULDER ROAST ™% All Merchandise Sold on Fresh Killed Fresh or Smoked Guaranteed White Henneries LAMB BLAST SNUFFS OUT GAS WELL FLAMES| Menace Continued by Gusher, However, After 45-Pound Nitro Shot. By the Associated Press. WEWOKA, Okla., December 23.—The burning No. 2 A. B. Douglas gas well, | in the Wewwoka field, was snuffed out | yesterday with a 45-pound shot of nitro | gelatin, but its wild flow of oil and gas continued to create a menace. ‘Two brothers, “fire eaters” of the Midcontinent oil fields, extinguished the 150-foot flame with the powerful blast after an airplane trip to Tulsa for the explosive. Attempts to “shoot out” the well failed yesterday. M. M. Kinley and Harry Kinley, the brothers, crept to the gasser’s edge under the protection of a stream of | water, placed the asbestos-covered nitro | on a “shelf” and exploded it by elec- tricity. The flame, burning sincesearly Fri- | day, snapped out. | Whipped by a strong wind, the gas and ol blew southeast, away from the edge of Wewoka. It sprayed an oil-pumping station and drenched United States highway 270, causing detour of all traffic be- | tween here and Holdenville. The gasser, with an estimated daily flow of 60,000,- | 000 cubic feet of gas and and 800 bar- | rels of oil, is a mile south of this city | of 10,000 population. | Officials of the Deep Rock Corpora- | tion, producers of the Douglas, believed quired to cap the well. | tion with a rope tied around his neck, PRIEST BRUTALLY SLAIN | Details of Killing of Father Mnr-[ cus Ho by Chinese Reds Received. SHANGHAI, December 23 (#).—De- tails of the death of the Chinese Cath- olic missionary, Father Marcus Ho at the hands of Chinese Communist bands in mountainous southeast Hupeh Prov- ince have been received here. The priest was driven out of his parish in November, but returned to rescue his vestments and sacred vessels Com- munists seized him when he arrived at the mission station and stripped and beat him unmercifully. Then they blinded him with lime and led him a short distance from the sta- with which they slowly strangled him. He buried without a coffin. and p; sale. the sale. s IO S Trains Fumigated. The latest method of cleaning rail-, way carriages is that used by the Ger-| man federal railways. The carriage run into a huge air-tight cylimder into which is pumped a strong dlln!emnh‘ . The carriage remains in“the gas| long enough to allow it to penetrate every chink and corner, so that all harmful bacteria are killed. NEW YORK MARKETS 1420 7th St. N.W. Near O St. Market 925 4/, St. S.W. Xmas Specials Fresh Killed Home Dressed 1b- Ib. 341/‘2(: 71/zc v 27Y5c b 22lc 2 Doz. 45¢ 21c 15¢ b 15¢ a Money-back Guarantee Ib. Fresh or Smoked AND Ib. 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ES. 2900 14th St. N.W. | The family physician said Mrs. Dick UNUSUAL VALUES You will be agreeably surprised at the quality d prices on the automobiles we are of- fering in our annual pre-inventory used car Many of these cars, which have been taken in on new Cadillacs and La Salles, show but very little signs of usage—most all standard makes in a variety of models are included in Terms and your car in trade The Washington Cadillac Company 1136-38-40 Connecticut Ave. Open Evenings e t a General Electric! Still Time! A $25 Down Payment Wil Put One in Your Home Before Christmas National Electrical Supply Co. 1328-30 New York Avenue N.W. Telephone National 6800 DECEINBER 23 1930. WIDOW FOUND DEAD[S o, % Lrcene WITH HER ARM TIED Maid Discovers Body in Gas- Filled Room—Police Re- port Suicide. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 23.—Seated before the open jets of a gas range with her left arm tied to a pipe to keep her from falling, Mrs. Elizabeth Dick, young widow of & New York broker, was found dead yesterday in her East Thirty-sixth street apartment. % A colored maid discovered her body, and police called her death a suicide. grieved much at the death of her husband, Julian Dick, who was acci- dentally shot to death 10 years ago, and recently an antique shop which she opened in Greenwich Village had failed. She had spent much time in sanitarfums in the last year. Mrs. Dick was well known and active in society. She was 38. Before her marriage she was Elizabeth Tincher of Topeka, Kans. Her husband, at 22, was the youngest broker ever admitted to membership in the New York Stock Ex- change. In Mrs. Dick’s apartment police found a note addressed to Gerald Brooks, younger brother of George, which said: “I am sorry, time will tell.” Another note read: “Gerald, nothing that has happened between us was the cause of this.” B In a note for her sister, Mrs. A. Stew- art, 1016 North Oregon street, El Paso, ‘Tex., she left a list of bank and broker- age accounts with the request that the sister take them over. Police said the accounts indicated she had not suf- fered financial reverses. George and Gerald Brooks are sons of Belvidere Brooks, once general man- agoer of the Western Union Telegraph Hunt on for Bank Bandits. APACHE, Okla., December 23 (#)— Robbers who kidnaped J. W. Pieratt, cashier, after looting the American Ka. tional Bank of $2,500 late yesterday. were sought over Western Oklahoma ay. Pieratt was freed late last night near El Reno, Okla., after several hours of driving with the money in a sack at his feet. 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