This, the 10th annual report of the Irish Medical Association Maternal Mortality Committee, considers the circumstances of 21 maternal deaths which occurred during 1973. The number of births registered for 1973 was 67,992 which represents a birth rate of 22.3 per 1,000, 0.1 below that for 1972. There were 21 maternal deaths, 0.31 per 1,000 live births, the lowest rate recorded in the Committee's
... [Show full abstract] work over a period of 10 yr. In 1964, the equivalent figure was 0.64.