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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
The maternal mortality rate for the year is 1.13, and as a
result of the occurrence of one death, our mortality free record
for the past three years has been broken. Happily this tragic
event has only occurred once before in the past six years.
Table VI, below, showing the comparable maternal
mortality rates for the past 20 years affords the most striking
evidence of the dramatic change which has taken place in the
child bearing risk. While this state of affairs is due largely to
the discoveries of the brilliant few, improvement in accommodation,
improved facilities more readily available and more
efficient services, such as Blood Transfusion Organisation, have
made their contribution and we would be wise to resist the
temptation to place any obstacles in the way of full availability
of these facilities in our endeavours to solve other temporary
difficulties.