Some Aspects of Perinatal Mortality [Abridged]

Some Clinical Aspects of Anæmia in Pregnancy in Indian Women Living in Bengal *Abridged by Editor.

Perinatal Mortality

Sophisticated peoples have a low fertility and great concern for the welfare of their children. Their low birth rate is due to deliberate family limitation; besides planned parenthood, their desire for better living standards leads to emancipation of women, and later marriages. A century ago in Britain, when conditions of infant life were appalling, no less than 15 out of every 100 live born in...

Some Aspects of the Infant Mortality Problem in Belfast

TIhe infant deaths occurring in Belfast from June, 1941, to June, 1942, were selected for study, and of these, 554 cases-84 per cent. of the total deaths of legitimate infants for that period-were investigated. Information was collected concerning a sample of children, who had survived one year of life in this city. This wvill be referred to as the "Control Group," and was established by select...

Intrapartum perinatal mortality.

Intrapartum perinatal mortality, the deaths that occur during the period around birth, is a major problem in developing countries accounting for more than one million stillbirths and a similar number of neonatal deaths worldwide each year [1,2]. A number of authors have emphasized that the time encompassing labor and the 24 hours after birth is the most dangerous period for both the mother and ...

Perinatal mortality in Wales.

The death rate among infants in the last weeks of pregnancy and the first days of postnatal life has been decreasing steadily as the standards of antenatal and postnatal care have improved and as the general standard of health of the population has become better. There are still, however, regional differences in the risk of perinatal death, and in the Principality of Wales the risk of losing a ...