Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [serial] . puerperal septicemia in the negro is more than twoand a half times that of the white. Since puerperal septicemia is a goodindex of the type of obstetrical services rendered, and since of whitebirths were attended by physicians and only of colored births wereso attended, rates for this condition constitute a rather serious indictmentfor the midwives of the State. TABLE NO. 4MATERNAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND RACE, 1931 Number of births White Negro 22,360 Total74,743 ListNo. Cause of Death Rate No.
Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [serial] . puerperal septicemia in the negro is more than twoand a half times that of the white. Since puerperal septicemia is a goodindex of the type of obstetrical services rendered, and since of whitebirths were attended by physicians and only of colored births wereso attended, rates for this condition constitute a rather serious indictmentfor the midwives of the State. TABLE NO. 4MATERNAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND RACE, 1931 Number of births White Negro 22,360 Total74,743 ListNo. Cause of Death Rate Rate Rate 140 Abortion with septic 141 Abortion without septic conditions 142 Ectopic gestation 143 Other accidents of pregnancy: (not to include hemorrhages). 144 Puerperal hemorrhage 145 Puerperal septicemia 146 Puerperal albuminuria and eclampsia. 147 Other toxemias of pregnancy 148 Puerperal phlegmasia alba dolens, embolus, sudden death _ 149 Other accidents of 150 Other and unspecified conditions of the puerperal state TOTAL. *Indian——4. A classification of deaths for the year 1929 by the age of the mother,as shown in Table No. 5, indicates that mothers under twenty years ofage are subjected to greater hazards than are mothers between the ages oftwenty and twenty-nine. After the mother reaches the age of thirty, therates increase in each five-year period of the age group. TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SESSION 569 TABLE NO. 5MATERNAL DEATHS BY AGE, 1929 Number Number Age Live Births Deaths Rate 10 — 14 93 5 15 — 19 10,606 63 20 — 24 ,22,087 155 25 — 29 17,244 122 30 — 34 11,690 132 35 — 39 8,437 111 40 — 44 2,874 44 45 — 49 391 11 SO — 54 9 1 Over 55 Total 77,164 684 Table No. 6 shows the deaths from puerperal albuminuria in 1929 byage groups. The rates for those under twenty and over thirty-five areappreciably higher than the total rate for this condition that year. T
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