Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Volume 41, No. 4 (1960)

In 1959, 8 meetings were held, of which 4 were joint with the Kazan Scientific Society of Pediatricians. At the meetings, 18 reports and 12 demonstrations were heard. Guided by the decision of the joint plenum of the Board of the All-Russian Societies of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Pediatricians, which took place in Moscow in December 1958, and taking into account the problems in the fight against early infant mortality in the TASSR, the society paid its main attention in the reporting year to discussion and development, together with pediatricians, measures to combat stillbirth and early infant mortality. Half of the sessions were devoted to these questions. In these sessions, 10 reports were heard and discussed on the following topics: the role of obstetricians and pediatricians in reducing newborn mortality; analysis of early infant mortality in Kazan; analysis of newborn mortality for 3 maternity departments of the city; analysis of infant mortality from birth trauma and infection and measures to reduce it; pneumonia in newborns; intrauterine asphyxia of the fetus.