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Newborn Brown,
Eatelle Influence
W., Lyon, of Syphilis
Bobert on the
A., and Incidence
Anderson, Nina of Prematurity,
A.: Causes Am. J. Dis.
of Pr+Xnaturity-V. Child. 70: 318, 1945.
The lruthors state that prematurity was somewhat more frequently characteristic of the offspring of syphilitic women than of the infants of nonsyphilitic women. For the white race the respective percentages were 14 and 9 per cent. For the Negro race they were 17 and 12 per cent. They observe that the incidence of prematurity among syphilitic women were ap The association of syphilis and conditions proproximately the same for the two races. ducing uterine bleeding resulted in a pronounced increase in the incidence of premature delivery. Specific therapy administered to syphilitic patients during pregnancy had pronounced effects. Therapy was associated with a drop in prematurity rates from 16 to 10 per cent. Among Negro mothers the rates fell from 23 per cent to 6 per cent. JAMES P. MARR. Brown,
EatMe W., Lyon, Bobert A., and Anderson, Nina A.: IV. Influence of Maternal Illneaa of the Incidence of Prematurity: Employment of a New Criterion of Prematnrity for the Negro Race, Am. J. Dis. Child. 70: 314,1945.
The authors found the incidence of prematurity among the offspring of white women who were entirely free from serious infection or other abnormalities during pregnancy was 5.5 per cent, in comparison to 13.5 per cent among infants whose mothers had some illness during pregnancy. The lowering of the upper limit of birth weight for prematurity of the Negro infants from 5 pounds, 8 ounces to 5 pounds, 3 ounces, showed respective percentage of 9.2 and 16.6 per cent. Approkmately 80 per cent of the stillborn infants of both races were offsprings of mothers who’had some illness during pregnancy. JAMES P. MARR. Norval,
Mildred Cases, Am.
A.: Sucking J. Dis. Child.
From this study it may babies to the breast is not a tious trials at nursing. This to allow the baby to learn vigorous unpleasant stimulation.
Bespo&e of Newly 71: 41, 1946.
Born
Babies
at Breast.
A Study
be concluded that the average early response of newly born greedy one, but is characterized more by dallying and repetibehavior should be met with patience and with calm attempts the gratification he can get from nursing rather than with JAMES
House,
Howard choacopic
P., and Drainage,
of Fifty
Owens, Harold: J. Pediat. 28:
Atelectasis 209, 1946.
of the
Newborn:
P. MARR.
Treatment
by Bron-
The etiology of atelectasis of the newborn is not fully understood. Bronchosoopic aspiration of the newborn infant is relatively a benign procedure when properly performed. The author’s report a corrected mortality rate, after eliminating other complications, 11.7 per cent, or two deaths in seventeen cases of proved true atelectasis. JAMES P. MARR. Goldbloom, Without 1946. strated
Alton, and Symptoms
Lubinaki, Herbert: Anti-I&h Agglutinina of Remolytic Anemia in the Newborn
A case is presented in which the Rh-positive infant no clinical or laboratory evidence of a hemolytic
in the Maternal Infant, J. Pediat.
of
Blood 28: 83,
of an Rh-negative mother demonanemia of the newborn, although