Annual report : 1942 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.

  • Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New-York.
Date:
1942
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Credit: Annual report : 1942 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uncorrected infantile mortality rate for 1942 was 3.103 per cent. The postoperative mortality in 1,158 gynecological operations during the year was 0.172 per cent. The research activities in the Hospital have continued, although greatly curtailed by loss of personnel to the armed forces. The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation has con¬ tinued to support our biochemical investigations in the etiology of eclampsia. We have been fortunate to obtain the full time services of Dr. Roy W. Bonsnes, formerly a member of the Department of Biochemistry in the Cornell University Medical School. He has extended the purine metabolism investigations started in 1939 by Dr. Norwood K. Schaffer and aided by the Markle Foundation. The vaginal smear research pertaining to the early diagnosis of genital cancer, conducted by Dr. George Papanicolaou of the Department of Anatomy and Dr. Herbert F. Traut of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has progressed to the stage where publication of an atlas for the guidance of those working in this field became highly desirable. These investigations, as well as the preparation and publication of this atlas, have been made possible through grants-in-aid from the Commonwealth Fund. The roentgenological investi¬ gations in pelvimetry, supported by Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar W. Bostwick, Mr. Albert C. Bostwick, Mrs. Ogden Phipps and Mrs. J. Watson Webb, have resulted in several publications dealing with the mensuration and accurate stereoscopic evalua¬ tion of contracted pelves in the female. The untimely and sudden death on June 18, 1942, of Dr. Kyle B. Steele, who was mainly responsible for the initiation and development of these re¬ searches, has been a great loss to the Hospital. We are fortunate in having Drs. Lucius A. Wing and Charles M. McLane, who worked with Dr. Steele, to continue these investigations. During the year Dr. Herbert F. Traut, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College, and Attending Obstetrician and Gynecologist to the Hospital, accepted the Professorship of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California. His leaving was a major loss to Cornell and the Hospital, where for ten years he has been one of our outstanding teachers, investigators and clinicians. The Lying-In Hospital [10]