Report on confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in England and Wales, 1964-1966 / by Humphrey Arthure [and others].

Date:
1969
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Report on confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in England and Wales, 1964-1966 / by Humphrey Arthure [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Duration of pregnancy Number of in weeks women 26 l 33 l a5 o 36 2 ey i 38 2 40 ] The women suffering from eclampsia who died undelivered did so at the thirty- third, thirty-fifth (two), thirty-sixth, thirty-eighth week (two) and one at term. The duration of pregnancy at delivery in the remaining fifty-eight women was as follows: Duration of pregnancy Number of in weeks women aes WwW ©) N — AOANANAWWA) Be Re RK RE NR Re Three women aborted spontaneously, in two the pregnancy was terminated by hysterotomy and in sixteen by Caesarean section. Thirty-one women had live- born babies, there were twenty-one stillbirths, and six women had twin preg- nancies. In five cases both twins survived and in the remaining case one of the babies was stillborn. Six women died before the baby was viable and in nearly one-third death occurred before the thirty-fifth week of pregnancy so it is necessary yet again to stress the importance of early detection of the signs of pre-eclampsia and the equal necessity of adequate management of these women. Actual Cause of Death Deaths assigned to toxaemia under the categories of the International Classification of Diseases may be due to a complication of toxaemia such as anuria or a complication of treatment made necessary by the disease such as sepsis following premature delivery of the baby by Caesarean section. The actual causes of death in the sixty-eight assigned to toxaemia were as follows: