[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Medical Correspondent makes
the interesting suggestion that the high rate of maternal mortality, among young mothers of the prosperous classes may be " because the newly emancipated woman . has yet to acquire. a sound biological status." This is a hint in the right direction. In any Society dance who can fail to notice the preponderance of tall, elegant, and intensely slim girls ; does this type of physique give measurements adapted to easy maternity ? A young friend—who nearly lost her life, in her first confine- ment—is wisely arranging that the birth . of her coming child- shall be through operative measures—and if the type of English gentlewoman continues on its present lines—surely, Caesarean section will some day be the .usual route for their children to enter the world ! I hive done midwifery safely in vile slums and I quite agree with your correspondent that insanitary surroundings and malnutrition are not by any means the explanation of this mortality which we all
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