Computer linkage of an obstetric register and a psychiatric case register made it possible to investigate the temporal relationship between childbirth and psychiatric contact in a population of 470 000 people over a 12-year period: 54 087 births resulted in 120 psychiatric admissions within 90 days of parturition [corrected]. The 'relative risk' of admission to a psychiatric hospital with a psy...

MANY unusual problems confront the surgeon working overseas. Solutions may not be easy to obtain from the literature available locally. In Britain, with excellent obstetric care universally available, chronic puerperal inversion of the uterus is hardly ever seen nowadays, but elsewhere one may occasionally have to treat this condition. British authors quote an incidence of about i in 30,000 del...