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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    Taste VII. Original booking and ultimate method of delivery of patients.t Opera- Sepsis.|P.P.H.|A.P.H.| tive [Eclamp- | Other |Embo-|Total Shock,} sia. /|Toxae-| lism. etc. mas. .. (Hospital ...) 74 5 ll 27 23 13 91| 174 S 2! Doctor ...| 216] 39 31 58 72 25 37 | 478 ag Midwife ...| 242/| 34 49| 39 64 8 341 470 = & | Not booked) 57/| 12 26 10 44 21 13 )5 188 Of | Unstated...) 27 2 8 11 15 32 Bik - 108 Total ...| 616] 92 125 | 145 218 99 113 | 1,408 Hospital BY 79 6 13 28 23 13 21 |- 183 Piss ee 9 65 45 89 32 12/| 316 SP Doctor ...| 278 | 62 37 59 60 15 44 | 555 ERS Midwife .... 158 | 11 BS 7 7 4 25 | 212 BS a Undelivered) — -—— 10 2 39 9 ] 61 5 | Unstated...) 29 1 ss ra = see 26 7 67 No Attend- Lant* Su 8 3 — — a — 3 14 Total ...| 616] 92 125 | 145 218 99 113 | 1,408 by Total number of cases investigated, 2,000. 1408 cases are included in the above table—there were also 188 cases of abortion and ectopic gestation, and 404 cases which died from intercurrent diseases. Conclusions. 40. It is clear from what has been already said that caution must be exercised in drawing conclusions from the evidence obtained from these investigations. The Committee are, however, convinced that information has been elicited which is of substantial and definite * This means that no preparation had been made for the confinement, and that no doctor or midwife was present during labour. It does not include cases born before the arrival of the attendant. + B = Booked case. E = Emergency case. { The explanation of the discrepancy between the number booked by a hospital and the number entered as delivered in hospital as booked cases is that a certain number of cases booked by a doctor were seen in hospital ante-natally at the request of the doctor. Although later sent in as emer- gencies, the hospital staff had had the opportunity of diagnosing any deviation from the normal.