POSTPUERPERAL MORBIDITY

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Abstract
With a view of stimulating the careful examination of the postpuerperal woman, I present a statistical study of 1,000 examinations made as soon as possible after the child was 6 weeks of age. The cases are taken consecutively from our files, only completed charts being used, and all cases being disregarded in which for any reason the data were insufficient to justify conclusions. A large majority of the cases represent material at the Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital and my private service, charts being used even though the patient was first seen during labor or in the puerperal period provided the data were complete and they were found among the first thousand charts examined. No special classification is made that takes into consideration the number of children born to the individual; my aim is to represent conditions as found in this group regardless of parity. The large majority are multiparas, and

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