A Scheme of Maternity Service Co-Ordinating Antenatal, Domiciliary and Hospital Treatment *Read 13th March 1929.

that at least 90 per cent, of all midwifery falls into this class, and that, furthermore, a great part of the mortality and morbidity figures consist of women who suffer in the performance of what is an entirely physiological function. No maternity service, domiciliary or hospital, is adequate which fails to recognise that its primary duty must be the safeguarding of the interests of this overwhelming majority of healthy women. The death of a young normal woman is an outrage on the fitness of things, which stirs at once our sympathies and our resentment as little else can do. Hardly less heartrending is that incalculably large crowd of young women who suffer lasting damage in childbed, and who continually pass