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method of spreading their scheme around the world. It is now of course a completely going concern. Their projects of maternity care have worked out first class. The death rate has been reduced to a very small percentage.

In that first year they got a control program which showed that of persons becoming pregnant at the same time and having deliveries at the same time, in the hundred cases controlled, as compared with any other hundred cases taken at random throughout the city, the death rate was infinitely lower than the normal death rate than that /sic/ in the city at large or the normal death rate of the persons who conceived and were pregnant during the same month. It was an old lady's theory at that time that pregnancies that were largely in the winter were more likely to have a bad result, or something like that. Therefore we took the dates of delivery. We took any hundred cases scattered over the city and it was clear that you had established that this was it.

Then the city began to be interested by making appropriations to the hospitals for this kind of work. It is now a commonplace, but the Maternity Center Association continues its work as a great educational institution. We hadn't gotten as far as they have now in getting prospective mothers into the proper psychological set for having a baby. If we could keep them from having eclampsias, spasms and kidney complications,