The pathology of intra-uterine death.

  • William Overend Priestley
Date:
1887
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Credit: The pathology of intra-uterine death. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    considered which become important factors in making- the calculation. Age has a marked influence on the continuance of pregnancy, be it the first or latest gestation, and the social circumstances in which the w^oman finds her place in life, are not without effect on her successful child-bearing. Thus, women of the better classes incur much more risk of aborting in their first pregnancies than their poorer sisters, from the prevailing fashion of taking long journeys immediately after marriage. If conception begins then, it is very likely to break down as the result of the shakino' and fatio^ue incurred, combined with the UTitation often set up in the reproductive organs, as the result of the new conditions of life. The preceding remarks refer more particularly to abortion in the earlier periods of pregnancy. Concerning the amount and frequency of foetal mortality in utero in the later periods of gestation, no very large amount of information is accessible. There are abundant statistics by Collins, MacClin- tock, Sir James Simpson, and others, concerning the number of still-born children resulting from tedious,, difficult, and complicated delivery, and with these are included a certain number of children who died antecedent to the supervention of labour. But taking these two together it is obvious that the sum of both, forms only a small proportion of the abso- lute mortality which occurs in the later periods of gestation. Of 16,654 children born in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, and recorded by Collins,* 1121 were still-born. Of these still-born children, Soi were either premature, or if at the full time, were Practical Treatise on ]\Iidwifery, 1S3J.