stions should be carried out
and counsel should be sought of him as to the place of confinement.

THE PLACE OF CONFINEMENT

There are a number of factors that enter into the selection of the
place of confinement. In the first place, if the home be roomy,
bathroom convenient, if the required preparation of all necessities
for the day of labor can be effected, and it is further possible to
prepare a suitable delivery-room at home with ample facilities for
emergencies and complications, and you can persuade your physician to
do it--then the best place in the world for the mother to be confined
is within the walls of her own home. But such is the case in but one
home out of hundreds, and I regret that time and space will not allow
me to describe and portray the many untimely deaths that might have
been avoided if this or that supply had only been ready at the moment
of the unexpected complication of delivery. Why should we needlessly
risk the lives of prospective mothers, when, in every up-to-date
hospital delivery-room, all these life-saving facilities are freely
provided? Here in the modern hospital, the mothers from small homes
and apartments, the mothers who live in stuffy basements, as well as
those from the average home in the average neighborhood, can come with
the assurance of receiving the best possible care and attention. Every
woman who can arrange or afford it, should plan to avail herself of
the benefits, comforts, quietness, and calm of a well-equipped
hospital and the surgical cleanliness and safety of its aseptic
delivery-room.

Fortunately, the mother of the basement home may have the same clean,
sterile dressings used upon her as does the mother of the boulevard
mansion. The maternity ward bed at $8.00 to $10.00 a week can be just
as clean as the bed of the $40.00 a week room. The methods and
procedures of the delivery-room can be just as good in the case of the
very poor woman as in the case of the magnate's wife. In no way and
for no reason fear the hospital. It is the cleanest, safest, and by
far the cheapest way. The weekly amount paid includes the board of the
patient, the routine care, and all appliances and supplies of every
sort that will be used. Under no circumstances should a midwife be
engaged. Any reputable physician or any intellectual minister will
advise that. Let your choice be either the hospital or the home; but
always engage a physician, _never_ a midwife.

THE NURSE

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