Deaths from rhesus haemolytic disease in England and Wales during 1980 and 1981 and a comparison with earlier years

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Summary This paper follows a pattern similar to those of the earlier years, the assessment being made after perusal of the hospital notes or very full summaries in all the cases. The chief finding is a marked decrease in the deaths from rhesus haemolytic disease of the newborn in 1981 and reasons for this are discussed. There is also evidence of a considerable improvement in death certification but nevertheless errors still occur and examples are given. New information from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys about the multiple coded cases, that is the sample extracted where haemolytic disease was only the antecedent or contributory cause of death, has necessitated a slight alteration of the estimated number of rhesus deaths given in the previous papers.