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As a prelude to the development of Rules and Regulations for Hospital Maternity and Newborn Care, now in force, a detailed survey and analysis of such care in hospitals and in prenatal clinics in Washington, D. C., was conducted in 1951. The findings in this survey, as had those of previous surveys, and somewhat crude analyses of stillbirth and neonatal mortality in the various hospitals of the city during the decade between 1940 and 1950 served to highlight the need for regular and recurring studies of the obstetric and newborn experience and of other aspects of the community picture of maternal and newborn care. Such an inquiry seemed essential to supplement, expand, and give more effective direction to current collaborative efforts of the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health with hospital maternity departments to improve standards of care and with the medical profession, per se, through the existing Maternal Mortality Committee and proposed fetal and neonatal mortality committees. We felt, too, that such analyses would serve to foster improved indicated. The official livebirth and stillbirth certificates of the District of Columbia have had since 1940 a detachable supplement providing for submission on the livebirth
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Sep 1, 1955
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