Medical Insurance and Health Conservation Volume 10, No. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in several times at Baganga, but the one just reported was the only death I saw there. But since I have been here in Davao--since March 21, 1900--out of 100 married women, five deaths in childbirth are recorded by the health officer. Our medical officer attended each of them, as well as quite a number who managed to pull through. Five per cent, in as many months is quite a serious death rate. Now you may say that there is no excuse for that, if an American "medico" was in attendance, but that is explained by the fact that they always wait till the patient is ready to lay out before sending for a doctor, and exhaust all of their various and sundry methods of delivery, till the patient dies from shock in spite of all that can be done for them. Well, what I have said is actually true. Thousands of women have given up their lives in childbirth who could have been saved as easily as not had they received medical attention. The little child whose entrance into the world I witnessed is growing nicely; they made me its god-father, and while I was sick at Baganga it got sick, and its grandmother, who took charge of it, sent for me, and because I could not go, she raised the mischief with one of the soldiers who took it some medicine. She seemed to almost worship me, and used to send me one hen's egg a week, and thought she was doing a great thing by me, and I guess she was, as she only had one hen that laid. At any rate, I appreciated it just as much as though it had been money. I will go out any time to see them, but I always teach them to pay something; if they have no money to bring me eggs or chickens or something. It is a good plan I find, as they soon get to think we are a lot of servants sent here to minister unto them, and they abuse our willingnes...