Progress in obstetrics.

THE general improvement in maternal morbidity and mortality rates during the past years is due to many factors. Prenatal care is one of the most important. In a hospital clinic that accepts all emergencies it is very impressive that a large proportion of obstetrical problems occur in the patients who have had inadequate or no prenatal care. Such cases of eclampsia as are seen today are largely from that group. Many cases of severe premature separations of the placenta occur in patients who have developed an unobserved preeclamptic toxemia. Cases of dystocia are more common in the patient in poor . . .