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Two hundred years of evidence-based perinatal care: late-fetal mortality in the past
1 Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2 Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Netherlands Inter-Disciplinary Demographic Institute, Hague, The Netherlands
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R I Woods
Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK; riwoods@liv.ac.uk
Accepted 9 June 2006
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Modern evidence-based perinatal care is dependent on the ability of registration systems to record birth outcome precisely and reliably. In the English-speaking countries, this began in the early 20th century with stillbirth registration in a few states in the US. England and Wales followed in 1927, Scotland in 1939, the Irish Republic in 1959 and Northern Ireland in 1961. In The Netherlands, Belgium and France, stillbirth registration began in the mid-19th century. However, in Norway and Denmark, registration had been part of the national system for nearly 200 years, and in Sweden it began as early as the 1750s. In the Scandinavian countries, registration of stillbirths was from the very beginning thought to be an instrument with which to monitor birth attendance and to obtain evidence on what could be considered best practice. In 1802, all clergymen in Denmark and Norway were ordered to include the number of stillborn in
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