TY  - JOUR
T1  - Child life investigations: The causes of neo-natal death.
Y1  - 1931/01/31
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1931.02720310072037
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 382
EP  - 382
VL  - 96
IS  - 5
N2  - This pamphlet, issued by the Medical Research Council, is based on postmortem examinations of 800 infants who died during the first four weeks of life. Complications of labor were the cause in many cases, including prematurity and the effects of asphyxia and atelectasis resulting from a complicated labor. Prematurity may be due to maternal disease, including the toxemias of pregnancy. As a result of these conditions, the infant is predisposed to infection. Dr. Cruickshank is convinced that more attention to prenatal care is necessary to lower the great mortality rate during the first four weeks of life. It is necessary not only to urge on the public the necessity for prenatal care but to provide increased facilities for that service. It is also necessary to improve the education of medical students, graduate physicians and midwives in such services. Congenital syphilis includes only 1 per cent of the cases in the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1931.02720310072037
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1931.02720310072037
ER  -