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CHILDBIRTH AT HOME
Possible Hospital Danger
OPINION OF DOCTOR
Is Dr. H.G. Dain (chairman of the British Medical Association Committee on the National Maternity Service Scheme) right in stating that women are safer in childbirth at their own homes than they are in maternity hospitals? Dr. Dain declares that the danger from puerperal fever is great in hospitals, and that freedom from it in the home outweighs other disadvantages.
The News, 1930
Silently, Maguire stitched and dressed the lesion in Rowland’s arm. Having passed cleanly through the flesh, the bullet, at least, had done no lasting damage. The rest of it was the worst kind of mess.
Wilfred sat behind the desk staring at a glass of whisky and smoking. Periodically he retrieved the watch from his pocket and checked the time
