TY  - JOUR
T1  - MAternity care in a rural community, pike county, mississippi, 1931-1936
Y1  - 1939/04/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800150102028
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1530
EP  - 1530
VL  - 112
IS  - 15
N2  - This is part of a stock taking of a public health program established in Pike County, Miss., in 1931 with the assistance of the Commonwealth Fund. Attention is focused on maternal mortality, which was 5.3 and 9.4 per thousand live births for white persons and Negroes respectively. "In regard to the Negro maternal deaths, it seems likely that the relatively poor economic conditions under which the patients lived caused a lowered resistance and greater tendency to develop some of the common conditions causing death, such as infection and toxemia." While, on the basis of an analysis which it is stated should be clearly understood as "in part speculative," it was determined that a certain percentage of the maternal deaths were due to "neglect and failure to obtain medical care on the part of the patient or midwife, and possibly ill advised interference on the part of the physician,... nearly half
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800150102028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800150102028
ER  -