An appeal on behalf of The British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, Woolwich, by Leslie Banks
Thirty years ago Alice Gregory and two friends decided to devote their lives to finding some method of making childbirth safe. They founded this hospital as a school for the higher training of midwives. In 1905 they were using the training which was not officially adopted until 1926.
From 1929 to 1933 there was not a single death in the hospital, where puerperal fever is a thing unknown. It is able to accommodate 800 mothers every year, but has to refuse over a thousand for lack of beds. There is room on its site for a second ward block, which would double the number that might be admitted. £6,000 is needed to complete it.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]