[Report on obstetrical activity during the triennium 1985-1987. 4th Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, University of Milan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, S. Gerardo Hospital, Monza].

The data of three years of activity (1985-1987) at the 4th Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the University of Milan, S. Gerardo Hospital in Monza, for a total of 5595 deliveries and 5672 new-borns are reviewed. Each case of perinatal death has been evaluated for gestational age, weight, way of delivery and preexisting or pregnancy-induced maternal diseases, trying to single out the primary causes of death. In order to compare these data with the ones of the previous three years the results have been divided, following the gestational age, in two groups (less or more and equal than 28 weeks). Late perinatal death rate (including all the babies older than 24 weeks of gestational age, still-born or live-born and dead within the 28th day of life) has been 1.8%, compared to the 2.1% in the previous 3 years. Obstetrical procedures and neonatal outcomes are analyzed in depth. Puerperium was pathological in 8.9% of patients. Only 4.2% of women decided not to breast-fed their babies.