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

Date:
1969
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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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    Age and Parity TABLE V Number of women, by age, who died from Toxaemia of Pregnancy. 1964-1966 All toxaemia Age * All 1961-1963 1964-1966 (years) Eclampsia other fH) toxaemia (1) (2) Rate Rate ———|—_————————_| Number | per million | Number | per million Number Number maternities maternities Under 16 — — — — a = 16-19 6 1 5 25:2 7 28:7 20-24 11 _ 28 35°8 11 13-0 25-29 6 8 23 29°8 14 17:7 30-34 8 | 21 45-4 15 34:4 35-39 6 y 18 78:1 13 60:1 40-44 2 4 10 145-8 6 94:7 45 and over 1 1 I 243-7 2 483-6 All 40 28 106 42-1 68 26:2 TABLE VI Number of women, by parity, who died from Toxaemia of Pregnancy. 1964-1966 All toxaemia All 1961-1963 1964-1966 Parity* Eclampsia other ——_—_]_- | | toxaemia : (1) (2) Rate Rate —______|___—___——_| Number | per million | Number | per million Number Number maternities |. maternities 1 23 3 52 571 26 2E2 2 4 8 16 Zbl 12 15-1 3 3 5 12 28:3 8 18-6 4 1 3 o 44-3 4 19-3 5-9 8 8 16 10 or more -- 1 } i 48-9 ‘ 1 : 84-6 Not stated 1 — 6 1 All 40 28 106 42-1 68 26:2 * For definition of parity, see page 7. (1) LC.D. Nos., 642°3, 685 (fone case allocated to 652-0 which was regarded as eclampsia). (2) I.C.D. Nos. 642:0, 642°1, 642-2, 652-0, 652°1. . The age and parity distribution of women who died from toxaemia of preg- nancy is shown in Tables V and VI. They show the greatly increased risk of death in older women and in the fifth and subsequent pregnancies, although in the case of eclampsia the primigravida is also at much greater risk than women in the second, third and fourth pregnancies.