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...maternities would fail, and, realizing the dangers lurking in hospitals, we should do everything to improve conditions of the institutional delivery, so that it will turn out to be safer than home delivery. ..." ¶ "To be able to make such improvements we must first determine what is wrong with the hospital delivery. Why do more women die in the well equipped, fully staffed hospitals than die in the primitive home...
...jury of husbands or any committee of life insurance adjusters. . . . The general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something is wrong with the maternity wards of general hospitals, and a great deal ought to be done about it. My recommendation is architectural and administrative isolation of the clean maternity, until more is known about the nature of puerperal infection...
...Khartoum by the Mahdi's fanatics, the only Egyptian force in the Sudan to escape annihilation was one commanded by Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer). To rescue Emin Pasha became The Thing in England: Stanley was put in charge of the expedition. Practically everything that could go wrong did. but again Stanley got his man. this time succeeded in bringing him out to Africa's edge. During the ensuing banquet at Bagamoyo, Emin Pasha wandered out on a balcony, nearsightedly fell 18 ft. into the street, fractured his skull...
Everything irons out in the end. The wrong people get the credit, no one lives perfectly happy ever after: that, Author Nicolson implies, is the world's way. England, diplomacy, good intentions have somehow muddled through again...
...usual procedure: the nation starting a note exchange pays the tolls. In the recent instance: wrong, O'Hara; right, TIME. Britain and France paid...