Financing for maternity 'residences' a title that separated them from traditional hospitals for the poor- together with referrals for what was termed 'social dystocia' hospitalization because of poor housing conditions or lack of suitable care in the home: a condition that applied to the 61.3% of all hospital childbirths registered between 1947 and 1949, helped to overcome reticence toward hospitalization, and to make the physician's presence to be perceived as necessary.
De esta forma, la hospitalización y la participación del médico en caso de parto, infrecuentes antes de la guerra civil, pasaron a ser sucesos familiares e imprescindibles.