Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
- Great Britain. Department of Health for Scotland. Scientific Advisory Committee on Medical Administration and Investigation.
- Date:
- 1943
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table 30.—Causes of Stillbirth, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, 1988 to 1942 | -_ Hazards of birth. | Pre-existing at birth. Booked cases : full-time. Per Per Number. eons | Number. aah Asphyxia , : — — | Foetal deformity . ‘ 7 3°7 | Difficult labour . ; 29 15°3 | Placenta previa. : ] 0°5 Others 5 : ; 7 3°7 | Accidental hemorrhage . 12 6°3 — ——| Toxzemia ; ‘ 3 10 5°3 Total , 36 18°9 | Intercurrent disease ; — —- Unknown : : : 34 17-9 Total d 64 33°7 Booked cases : premature. Others eee 1:1 | Foetal deformity. ' 15 7:9 Placenta previa. : 6 3°2 Accidental hemorrhage . 8 4°2 Toxzemia , , : 18 9°5 Intercurrent disease : 14 74 Unknown : , 4 27 14°2 | Total. 88 463 Total, all booked cases . 38 20°0 | Total, all booked cases _ . 152 80°0 Emergency cases : full-time. | Per Per | Number. ake | Number. ean | Asphyxia , : —= — | Foetal deformity. . aa — Difficult labour. ‘ 47 16°3 | Placenta previa. é 14 4°8 Others P ; : 11 3°8 | Accidental hemorrhage . 9 ol — —| Toxemia : ; ; 37 12°8 Total . 5f 58 20°1 | Intercurrent disease : — ~- . Unknown : s : 8 2°8 aoa Like Total: ! 5 68 23°5 Emergency cases; premature. Others F : ; 18 6°2.| Foetal deformity . ‘ 13 4°5 Placenta previa. 5 21 73 Accidental hemorrhage . 23 8°0 Toxzmia , 4 : 70 24°2 Intercurrent disease : — — Unknown ‘ ; 18 6°2 Total . 145 50°2 Total, all emergency cases 76 26°3 | Total, all emergency cases 213 13°7 clinics separated in their records ‘‘ booked ’”’ cases from ‘‘ emergencies.’”’ For instance, at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, “ booked ’’ cases represent the working-class population attending antenatal clinics, including an excess of primipare, those with known complica- tions and those from the poorest and most crowded homes, leaving an excess of later births and of uncomplicated deliveries to domiciliary midwifery in the better homes. ““ Emergency ’’ cases represent selected sick or otherwise abnormal women from those not attending antenatal clinics. The cases not included in these categories or cared for at nursing homes, where the experience will be similar to that of the hospital, would there- fore be expected to show a mortality lower than that of the city as a whole and still lower _than that of the hospital. Rough calculations show this to be true, although accurate comparisons could not be made without an ad hoc survey.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32174640_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
