English Translation

In the post-war period, with its terrible unemployment, the great need for housing, the lack of everything necessary for birth, the shortage of service and nursing staff, it was a compelling necessity for the woman to go to the institution for childbirth. These long-standing relationships have accelerated this development, and women have gladly made use of it because they have felt more secure in the institution than at home. Today, while unemployment has been eliminated, housing shortages are still rising, the lack of nursing and service staff has become even greater, especially today, when every available force is integrated into the economic process - only the service of the woman by the midwife cannot remedy this deficiency - and what all the other things needed to give birth and in the weekly bed are done more - body wash, bed linen, soap, etc. It is therefore not possible to claim that all the reasons which justified the birth of an institution would have been eliminated today; they may be even more justified. It is all these reasons that lead the woman without any external influence on her own to give birth in did Anstalt. It would be in sharp contrast to the German obstetric science, if one wanted to inhibit this development or even completely stop it by intervention measures. If we now again compare the results calculated by Pohlen for 1936 for the births of the German Reich, with which, for example, our clinic (see Table VIII), then this ge- Table VIII mortality of the death of the birth of the institution of the Germany Reich 1936 Prague 1935-1939 7.65°/00 total mortality 2o/00 (unaccompanied 3.7o/ 00) 2.43°00 0.89°0 spontaneous birth 23.21°/0 7.08°00 surgical birth radeto enormous difference. This can only be explained in such a way that in the case of childbirth institutions all institutions in which obstetrics are included, whether they are suitable for obsteculatory care or if the birth in the institution takes place in a practical way which is not suitable for Obstetric assistance, that only the institutions for childbirth management, in nursing staff and in the exercise of a contemporary obsteucial assistance meet as much under the name of obstecuary demands for institutional birth account, often leave much to be desired; on the nthichtungsheimen and obsteutlichen Abshilfe-