Interim report of Departmental Committee on Maternal Mortality & Morbidity.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Maternal Mortality & Morbidity.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Interim report of Departmental Committee on Maternal Mortality & Morbidity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u Germany (5°1), and slightly higher in Switzerland (4:4), New Zealand 4°8), and South Africa (4°9). It may be interesting to note also recent death rates in one or two other countries where the available records for the years taken above (1923-27) are incomplete. Thus for France (1925-27) the rate is 2-5; Holland (1921-25) 2.4; Italy (1922-26) 2-8; United States of America (Birth Registration area, 1921-25) 8-3. The low death rate in the Scandinavian countries and in Holland has been frequently noted and not fully explained, although the great attention paid to the training and status of midwives in these countries probably plays an important part. The situation is made manifest in the following composite table prepared for the Committee by the Registrar-General : — England and Wales. Birth and Death Rates per 1,000 ling; Infantile Mortality rates; and Mortality of Women in or associated with Childbirth per 1,000 Children born alive, 1911-1929. Total Bi General} Infantile) Puer- = puer- ees Total Year. 4k Death] mortal-| peral | RUST pale [beers |Matemeal p pe rate. : * . peral peral | Mortal- rate. |ity rate.*| Sepsis. mor- CAUSES. | i ality, | CBtSES- ity. y 1911-15} 23:6 | 14:3 109 | 1:42 2-61 4:03 0-99 5:02 1916-20} 20-1 | 14-4 91 1-51 2:61 4-12 1-68 5-80 1921-25; 19-9 | 12-2 75 1-40 2-50 3-90 1-14 5-04 1911 ...| 24-4 14-6 129 1-43 2-44 3°87 1-04 4-91 1912 ...| 24-0 | 13-4 95. |p: 1-39 2-59 3-98 0:97 4-95 1913 ...| 241] 13-8 109 || 1-26 2-70 3-96 0-91 4-87 1914 ...| 23:8 | 14:0 104 || 1:55 2-62 4-17 0:95 5-12 1915 .,.), 21-8. | 15-7 106 | 1-47 2-71 4-18 1-09 5:27 1916 21:0 | 14:3 91 1:38 2-74 4-12 0-94 5:06 1917 17-8 14-2 91 1-31 2-58 3°89 0:95 4-84 1918 bit 17-3 98 | 1-28 2-51 3°79 3°81 7-60 1919 18-5 | 14-0 93 || 1-67 2-70 4-37 1-98 6-30 1920 25-5 12-4 85 | 1-81 2-52 4-33 1-13 5:46 1921 22-4 | 12-1 81 || 1-38 2°53 3°91 1-09 5-00 1922 20-4 | 12-8 Tog gLcee 2-43 3°81 1-35 5-16 je ag IN oe ged eal 9 6ST 30 2°51 3°81 1-01 4-82 1924 ...;) 18-8 | 12-2 14, “re We39 2-51 3:90 1-16 5-06 1925 ...| 18-3 12-2 75 | 1-56 2-52 4-08 1:07 5°15 F926). AEB. LL-6 70 || 1-60 2-52 4-12 1-02 5-14 1927 ...| 16:6 12-3 WOE) 1-57 2-54 4-11 1-32 5°43 1928-2.) 1O°7 1 G5< it, E79 2°63 4-42 1-20 5-62 1929 ...| 16-3 | 13-4 74 1-80 2-53 4-33 1-49 5-82 * The rates for the years 1911-25 have been corrected for the violent fluctuations in the birth-rate during those years by stating the deaths in proportion to infants born alive during the same three monthly periods as those which died, and not to births registered in the same year.