This chapter examines maternal care and maternal mortality in Great Britain during the period from 1935 to 1950. During this period, the maternal mortality rate fell so steeply that the 1950 rate was only a fifth of the rate in 1935. The majority of women gave birth in hospital, and the mortality rate from all causes including abortion and puerperal fever fell significantly because of the development of sulphonamides. However, there are still criticisms that maternity services had become too technological and impersonal and dominated by male obstetricians prone to resort too readily to induction, instrumental delivery, or Caesarean section.