Findings on admission.?Patient well built and tall; ?n an exhausted condition; temperature 104.6?F., respiration 29 per minute; pulse 120 per minute; uterus assymetrical, wider from side to side; no uterine contraction; delay apparently due to secondary inertia; fcetus impacted and dead; oblique lie, dorso-posterior position with the head in left iliac fossa and breach on the right side; hand p...

Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990 This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and d...

How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). We find robust evidence that increased climate variability in...

Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children. Rather child poverty has followed ...

Despite an overall slowing population growth, the Asia–Pacific region still contains over 64 per cent of the global population 2 and some of the most densely populated places in the world. The region is very diverse in terms of cultures, territories, religions, languages and economic development. Such diversity is also reflected in the statistics available for child protection, with birth regis...

once accompanied him to a miserable hovel in the West Port, and found there a poorly nourished, wretched looking woman in the pains of labour. On inquiry, she was doubtful about her exact age, and stated this to be her second pregnancy?her first child having been still-born about two years before, after a labour of three days' duration. Her condition during her present pregnancy had been fair, ...

This book written by the well-known author of the Revelation of Child-birth, Dr. Grantly Dick Read, is a very illuminating one. All. those who are interested in obstetrics, specially in the preventive obstetrics, will benefit immensely by this newer light on physiological labour. Dr. Read's experience and his conviction of a painless labour is shown in the clear decisive way he has represented ...

"Although the determinants of teenager participation in the labour market have been studied previously (both in the United States and the United Kingdom), there remain a number of neglected questions. We address some of these in this paper, basing our analysis on data taken from the UK National Child Development Study. We first examine how teenagers divide their time between working and studyin...