ANEMIA IN LATE PREGNANCY

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Abstract
At the Woman's Hospital a considerable number of patients have been admitted to the obstetric ward, who clinically appeared anemic, and who, on examination, were found to have a low red cell count and a low hemoglobin estimate. This condition seemed the more surprising because of the class of patients applying for care. While some of those admitted to the hospital live under very bad social conditions, the majority of them are from hard working, simple living, families who are never in actual want. Realizing that all these patients were not reaching term in as satisfactory a condition as was desirable, I undertook a closer correlation of the work of the prenatal clinic with the inside ward service. A more careful study of the case was planned for the prenatal clinic, so that the patient would reach the delivery room with full data available and with abnormal conditions corrected as

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