Abstract
Though the complications during the third stage of labour and immediately after it are really the province of the obstetrician, it may perhaps be of interest to consider them from the somewhat different point of view of the patho logist. The following observations are based on a series of 98 patients with such complications who died and were studied at necropsy at Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital. Sixty-six of these patients died as a direct result of haemor rhage and shock, nearly always within 12 hours after the delivery of the baby. The other 32 had similar haemor rhage and shock but recovered temporarily ; they died later in the puerperium from other causes. It will of course be clear that the relative frequency of *ne complications of the third stage in the present series of fatal cases is probably not the same as that in patients who do not die. It should also be remarked that the present data cannot be compared directly with those of Glass and Rosenthal (1948), as the cases have been classified on quite different lines.
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