Letters relating to 1949 meeting

13 June 1949

1 file Paper

A meeting was held on 21 June 1949 in London, the first post-war international meeting of midwives. Mademoiselle Clemence Mosse, the President of the French Midwives' Union and President of the Paris Congress in 1938, had died earlier in May; letters were sent to Miss E. M. Pye, President of the British organisation, explaining the death of Melle Mosse and the name of the French delegate who would be attending the meeting in her place.

It was at this meeting that Miss Pye gave a history of the organisation from 1922, and informed the delegates that all documentation, which had been kept in Ghent, Belgium, had been destroyed/lost during the War. The meeting proposed a 'new start' for the organisation, and that future congresses would be held every third year.