PREVENTION OF BIRTH INJURY AND ITS RESULTING MORTALITY

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As one reviews the subject of birth injury and studies one's own cases, one begins to wonder, as a recent English author has said, whether it is not true that one of the greatest risks that the human being ever assumes is his passage through the birth canal. Birth injury may occur in any type of delivery. It is very essential, therefore, that a careful explanation be given to parents, and the most valuable explanation, of course, comes from the consultant who is not present at the birth. This consultant is most often the pediatrician. The incidence of birth injury is very difficult to ascertain. Nor can any one say whether it is on the increase or the decrease, for one is able to find in the English literature only a few accounts of analyses of large numbers of cases and classifications of birth injuries. At the Evanston Hospital, investigation

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