Townsend L
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 1977;56(4):323-6. doi: 10.3109/00016347709154986.
Statistics covering deaths directly due to pregnancy in the Commonwealth of Australia have been available since the turn of the century. However, those for deaths associated with pregnancy have not. Over the past two decades each State in the Commonwealth has set up Maternal Mortality Committees to collect confidential information on each maternal death, both direct (where the death is directly attributable to pregnancy or childbirth) and associated (where the death is associated with but not directly due to pregnancy or childbirth). New South Wales had set up the first such Committee in the 1930's, and this has since been followed by the other States. Most of the States have published reports from time to time but, owing to the small numbers involved, these reports have been limited in the conclusions that could be made. Confidential information on each maternal death is obtained and is considered by the State Maternal Mortality Committee. The cause of death is confirmed and classified. A necropsy is usually performed in each instance, the pathologist travelling to the town where the death has occurred, if requested.
自世纪之交以来，澳大利亚联邦就已掌握直接因妊娠导致死亡的统计数据。然而，与妊娠相关死亡的统计数据却并非如此。在过去二十年里，联邦内的每个州都成立了孕产妇死亡委员会，以收集每例孕产妇死亡的机密信息，包括直接死亡（死亡直接归因于妊娠或分娩）和相关死亡（死亡与妊娠或分娩相关但并非直接由其导致）。新南威尔士州在20世纪30年代成立了首个此类委员会，此后其他州也纷纷效仿。大多数州不时发布报告，但由于涉及的数量较少，这些报告得出的结论有限。每个州的孕产妇死亡委员会都会获取并审议每例孕产妇死亡的机密信息。死亡原因得到确认并分类。通常在每种情况下都会进行尸检，如果有要求，病理学家会前往死亡发生的城镇。
