Article: United States: maternal mortality inexcusably high and increasing. (condensed from the Birth Gazette of Summertown, TN)

FROM 'BIRTH GAZETTE', 42, The Farm, Summertown, TENNESSEE 38483-9626

"Maternal mortality in the United States has fallen significantly in this century. More than anything else this has been due to the advent of antibiotics and blood transfusions. There is no scientific evidence to prove that the fall in maternal mortality occurred because birth was moved into the hospital. . . Maternal mortality is quite different from perinatal mortality and infant mortality. The latter two are influenced by socioeconomic factors while maternal mortality is much more directly a function of the quality of the health care available.

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