[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sns,—The article by your Medical Correspondent is typical of much that should never appear in the lay Press. It tends to shake the nerves of the medically ignorant lay person, and though your correspondent no doubt means well the act is really a cowardly assault on the public. When it is done for remuneration I have no words left to stigmatize it rightly.
It would take farttoci. lonk and use up too much of your space to go into all the inner_ workings 'of this " ramp " in detail. But it remainstrueViat the class` that could show the cleanest record, viz., the riursS and GP.'s, in the homes of the people hate been consistently Mit& the targets of an infamous unprofessional and _mendadiOuls attack by officials ; and obstetric: specialists, few, if any,' of= whom were really disinterested. All th-q_kidvantage- that will accrue from hos- pitalizing of miiir iferliaSts will be that no -longer will these people have the G:P.-to blame forthe stationary or increasing
• death-rate.
No one can truthfully assail the following statement : The safest place for midwifery cases is their own homes. The safest attendants are the Midwife and G.P. „
JAMES COOK, M.D.
[When the public is, old the facts about this or any other question of importance it will be in a- position to 'pronounce intelligently on proposals for reform—and not till then.' Our Medical Correspondent happens to be a G.P.—En. The Spectator.]
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