ABSTRACT
The Government of India Special Committee of 1938 found that Indian vital statistics relating to mothers and infants are perhaps subject to an even wider margin of error than those relating to general population. The restraint with which the Health Commissioner puts the case obscures the relation in which the problem of maternal and infant mortality stands to the whole life and future of this country. It is true that to a certain extent it is a problem of health and preventable disease. But there is another perspective which affords a truer guide to long range planning. There are larger factors such as the general health policy and programme, the problem of poverty, the superstitions and usages of society and others which are beyond the scope of our inquiry. The main categories of service and training will be doctors, midwives, health visitors, inspectors and research workers.
