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Health Bulletin: Report on an Investigation into the Causes of Maternal Mortality in the City of Bombay

1941

Many cases had not been seen by a registered practitioner and often the cause of death put down by the sub-registrar of the ward was based on vague information with perhaps a cursory inspection of the body even this is not allowed at times on the ground of religious scruples and customs such as the purdah. [...] In the absence of regular postmortems the data collected by the investigator have had to be relied on for arriving at the most probable diagnosis and this obviously permits of a certain margin of error in assessing the true cause of death. [...] There was necessarily some delay in carrying out the investigation of each death as the reports of deaths took time to reach the office of the Health Officer from the sub-registrars of the"'respective wards and thereafter to be passed on to us. [...] The home visits were -done with the assistance of the attendants at the sub-registrars' office who knew the localities well and contld guide the investigator. [...] In a number of cases the head of the family could not be found in spite of repeated visits as the family had either moved into another part of the city or left for the country.
technology medicine science
Pages
92
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140959
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii J. Jhirad view
Chapter 1
1-15 unknown view
Chapter II. Factors Influencing Maternal Mortality
16-27 unknown view
Chapter III. Detailed Analysis of Maternal Deaths From Child-bearing Causes
28-46 unknown view
Chapter III. Maternal Deaths From Associated Diseases
47-48 unknown view
Chapter IV. A Note on Puerperal Morbidity
49-51 unknown view
Chapter V. Conclusions and Recommendations
52-78 unknown view

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