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Science Saves More Mothers-Lowest Death Rate Record
More mothers in England and Wales are surviving childbirth than ever before. Deaths among children under one year are only slightly higher than the low record.
Last year's maternal mortality rate was 3.1 per thousand births-the lowest ever recorded-compared with 3.6 in 1936 and 3.9 in 1935.
of 1936, but Mr. Elliot draws atten- on to the many people who allow
the disease to reach an advanced stage before seeking medical advice Research into the cause of cancer has been, continued in t ever widening field and it is hoped that some means of prevention will ulti-
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1988.
75, LOSES FLYING LICENCE
JOHN MCMULLEN, acventy-Ave-
year-old pilot, sat on the bunk of his home-made caravan at Han- worth (Middlesex) airport complain- ing: "They say they won't renew my pilot's licence. Why can't they take me into the Civil Air Guard? Do I took too old?"
Seven years
ago, when his wife died, Mr. McMullen towed his cara- van to Hanworth and stayed there while he learned to fly. He has been there ever since.
The figures are given by the Minister of Health (Mr. Walio, /mntely be put at the disposal of the crashed in his autaguro, and since
Elliot) in his annual roport.
Even healthier records are predleted by the experts when more tangible results of the national health campaign reveal themselves.
Full effect, for instance, has not been felt of the Midwives Act (1936), which established a salaried service of midwives for
ail mothers, rich and poor alike.
But Mr. Walter Elliot is silil noti satisfied-he describes the progres made as "milcalones" in the nation's health, not the "goal."
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190 YEARS' ACHIEVEMENT
He speaks with pride, however, of striking comparisons with 100 years ago, which he describes as “an indexi for the future." Here are some of his comparisons with 1838:
Death-rate: Reduced Irom 22.4
thousand to 12;
Tuberculosis: Deaths reduced from 4,480 per million to 700 per million;
Smallpox: More than 1,000 per
million reduced to none; cholera, claimed 22 in each million. Now it claims none.
Children: Infantile death-rate re- duced from 150 per thousand to 50;
Ministry.
DOG DRAGS WOMAN TO DEATH
Skegness,
A suggestion that a ̧ 53-years- old Skegness woman, walking with her Alsailan, was dragged to her death when the dog gave chase to a hedgehog was put for- ward at an inquest here-recently, The woman, Annie Irene Rose, wife of a butcher, was found in a muddy ditch at the foot of a steep embankment.
He has a record of 250 plioting. hours. But fifteen months ago he
that has had a severe operation. Now Air Ministry doctors will not pass him fit for flying. He is heart-
broken.
30,000 Unlucky
Youths
WENT TO SCHOOL IN WRONG TOWNS
Thirty thousand boys and girls in Britain have had the luck
to during this month
leave school at the wrong time or in the wrong place.
first
They are looking for their jobs. Three months ago they and their parents were confident there would be no difficulty in "getting placed."" Reports reaching Whitehall districts from the great Industriai suggest that in two months time most of them will be at work. But present it is a different story, Ministry of Labour experts, work- ing in their warren of "temporary" offices in the gardens of Montagu
Mr. George Rose, the widower, told Typhoid: Death-rale has come
the coroner. Dr. F. Walker, that on tumbling down from 1,228 per Friday night, after meeting his wife
in on hotel, he left for home alone.. million to 5 per million.
He woke at midnight to find the dog. minus collar and lead, scratch-House, Whitehall, are trying to
"SLUMS OF THE GROSSER KIND"
Of his hopes for the future Mring at the door. Elliot says: "We have not yet finished the clearing of the alums; we
solve a jig-saw puzzle more baffiing
In the morning he went to work as than ever before. have not yet abolished overcrowding, not usual, and later made inquiries of even of the grosser kind; we
the hotel staff as to the whereabouts not yet provided adequate housing in of his wife. the countryside,
have
STRUGGLED 15 YARDS
"We cannot afford to lose every Learning nothing by Saturday year nearly 2,000 mothers and more evening, he notilled the police. thun 35,000 children under the
age
of one.
We cannot view with com-
Dr. Walker: Were you not sur- placency an annun death-roll ofprised that your wife had stayed out nearly 30,000 persons from tuber- all night?Yes, rather. culosis and nearly 70,000 from
cancer,
"The process
which has added inches in height and nearly a stone In weight to our young people, especially in our Industrial tawns. Is. still under way..
"We are still polluting the rivers and air. In both
of these forms pollution there is often a conflict to resolve between the claims of health and amenity and those of an industry on which the whole prosperity of an area may depend, but better more economical methods of purify-
and
In the London
aren employers are pleading for youngsters. There are more Jobs Dian school-leavers. Omeals are planning more ex- petitions Inlo the distressed areas to leave their homes.
CONTRADICTIONS
In the midlands some places have shortage of youngsters, others a shortage of jobs. At this time dur- Dr. Walker: The Jury are suring the past three years jobs were prised that you did not acquaint the waiting in these districts for all who there Dre school. But now police with the facts of your wife's left disappearance straight away:-1 was. "temporary" stoppages; employers working all the time, and could not are waiting to re-engage their own and out anything.
staffs before taking on the school- leavers.
A constable told the court that from the position in which ho found Mrs. Rose, he believed that after the dor had pulled her down the embankment into the ditch she had struggled along in the mud for about 15 yards, and had then collapsed..
and
There are the same contradictions in the Lancnshire, Yorkshire Teesside districts.
In the distressed areas, two of every five youngsters will "sign on" at the labour exchanges. They left school in the wrong places,
Near her body was her hand-bog
This is the position: More than ing
effluents, improving combustion and the dog's lead. A few yards 170,000 have left elementary schools and the like are continually being away was the body of n hedgehog in n fortnight. About 140,000 discovered."
which had apparently been worried of them have gone either to higher tuberculosin Deaths from
were by the dog.
schools or to their first jobs. The ilghtly higher than the low record Verdict: Accidental death.
olher 30,000 are the unlucky ones.
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