Parliament: Report from the Select Committee on Midwives

Midwives , childbirth regulation

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Parliament: Report from the Select Committee on Midwives Registration; with Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix & Index. [ Command 289] vii + 173 pp., folio original printed blue paper wrappers , a very good copy, Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, HMSO, 1892. With considerable evidence from involved doctors (James H. Aveling, Consulting Physician to the Chelsea Hospital for Women), coroners and others. They reported that "there is, at present, serious, and unnecessary loss of life and health, and permanent injury to both mother and child for the treatment of childbirth, and that some legislative provision for improvement and regulation is desirable."

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