418 MEDICAL SECTION 



TOXAEMIAS OF PREGNANCY AND THEIR 

 EFFECT UPON MATERNAL AND 



INFANTILE MORTALITY. 



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With Suggestions as to how the Association and 

 the Public Health Department might assist 

 Obstetricians in lessening the Death-rate from 

 these and other complications of Pregnancy 

 and Parturition. 



BY J. M. MUNRO KERR, M.D. 



Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics and Gyncrcology, Glasgow University; Gynecological 

 Surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow', Obstetric Physician, Glasgow Maternity and 

 Women's Hospital; Honorary Fellow, American Gynecological Society. 



MY first duty, and a very pleasing one, is to thank 

 the Committee of the National Association for the 

 Prevention of Infant Mortality, and for the Welfare 

 of Infancy for the honour they have done me in 

 inviting me to read a paper before this Conference 

 of the Association. 



I am particularly delighted to be invited because 

 it brings me into association with many who have 

 done so much to lessen infantile mortality and gives 

 me an opportunity of indicating some further advances 

 we might make. For, unfortunately, there is no rest 

 for those who elect to serve under the banner of 

 progress ; they must ever march onwards and extend 

 their field of operations. 



Now I believe the time has come when those ot 

 us who are particularly interested in the welfare of 

 the new-born must direct our attention, not only to 

 the infant, but must look after and care for the ex 

 pectant mother during her pregnancy. 



As the time at my disposal is limited, I shall 

 make no further remarks by way of an introduction, 

 but shall at once proceed to the matter upon which 

 I have been asked to address you. 



The subject, as you see, is a very definite one- 



