THE BLOOD-PRESSURE DURING PREGNANCY

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Abstract
The patients (450 in number) on whom this report is based were referred to the prenatal committee of the Women's Municipal League of Boston for care during pregnancy, either by institutions which have no facilities for prenatal work, although equipped to care for the labor and convalescence of their patients, or through the personal application for prenatal care made by the patient herself. The length of time that the patients were under observation varied from a few days to six months, according to the period of pregnancy which had been reached when the patient first sought prenatal care, and averaged about two months or a little longer. As long as no abnormal symptoms developed the patients remained under the observation of the prenatal committee, but the care during labor was provided by the institution referring the patient or by the patient's private physician, and all abnormalities discovered during pregnancy were

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