[Obstetrical activities at the Dakar Principal Hospital (a 4-year retrospective 1978-1981)].

The authors give an account of the obstetrical activity at Dakar Principal Hospital over the last four years. After a short description of the operating conditions, they present two tables: one displays the comprehensive activity and the other lists the indications for the cesarean section which are, most frequently, carried out with an emergency background and the incidence of which rates much lower (2,9 p. 100) than reported in the industrialized countries.