ARE WE SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS OF ANTE-NATAL CARE ?
E. Cassie · BMJ · 1934
rMETlAL 197 becoming less self-reliant, or may it not be due to a decreased capacity to bear pain and to an increasing demand for rapid termination of labour and especially for anaesthetics?Finally, we should not forget that there is a certain proportion of obstetric complications that ante-natal care is so far powerless to prevent.These have been recently analysed by Strachan,5 and to his paper I shall refer those interested.I would end on a note of hopefulness.Disappointing as have been the results hitherto we are in the mood for self-criticism, and this may be the prelude to a fresh advance.A conference such as this between two of the Sections most nearly concerned in the success of antenatal work cannot but result in a fresh integration of effort.And in the words of Walt Whitman: " It is provided in the nature of things that from any fruition of success shall come forth something that shall make a greater effort necessary."