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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    MATERNAL MORTALITY Discharges Deaths Lying-In Hospital (Indoor). 3,925 8 Berwind Service (Outdoor). 160 0 Total. 4,085 8 MATERNAL DEATHS (All patients on the Berwind Outdoor Service requiring hospitalization are transferred to the Lying-In Hospital) Eight maternal deaths in 4,085 discharged patients. Gross maternal mortality (including abortion, ectopic and other) = 0.195% or 1.95 per thousand discharged patients or 2.23 per thousand pregnancies. The eight deaths were as follows: 1. Antenatal patients (dying before delivery). 1 2. Postpartum (full term and premature deliveries). 4 3. All other patients (abortions and postpartum admission). 3 Total. 8 INFANTILE MORTALITY Total infantile mortality includes all full term and premature infants, deadborn, stillborn, or dying within 14 days following birth in the Lying-In Hospital Indoor Obstetrical Service and Berwind Outdoor Obstetrical Service. An abortion is any fetus weighing less than 1,500 grams, or measuring less than 35 cm. in length. Abortions are not included in the Total Infantile Mortality. Lying-In vice).. Hospital (Indoor Ser- Total Infants 3,191 Deadborn and Stillborn 57 Neonatal Deaths 43 Total 100 Berwind vice).. Service (Outdoor Ser- 160 4 4 Total. 3,351 61 43 104 Gross Infantile Mortality = 3.103% [30]