Exhibition Collection

Abortion in the United States

A Conference Sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. at the Argen House and The New York Academy of Medicine

Edited by mary Steichen Calderone, M.D., M.S.P.H., Medical Director, Planned Parenthook of American, Inc.

Introduction by M.F. Ashley Montagu

A Hoeber-Harper Book

Table 6.8 Therapeutic Abortions by Indication for Intervention, New York City, 1951-53

Total Number 1698, 100%

Indication and code Mental disorders(300-326), Number 642, Per cent 37.8

Indication and code Schizophrenia (300), Number 177, Per cent 10.4

Indication and code Manic-depressive reaction (301), Number 78, Per cent 4.6

Indication and code Psychoneuroses (302-326), Number 387, Per cent 22.8

Indication and code Circulatory system diseases (400-468), Number 266, Per cent 15.7

Indication and code Rheumatic heart disease (400-416), Number 123, Per cent 7.2

Indication and code Hypertensive disease (440-447), Number 81, Per cent 4.8

Indication and code All other, Number 62, Per cent 3.7

Indication and code Infective and parasitic diseases (001-138), Number 221, Per cent 13.0

Indication and code Respiratory tuberculosis (001-008), Number 148, Per cent 8.7

Indication and code Other tuberculosis (010-019), Number 13, Per cent 0.8

Indication and code German measles (086), Number 57, Per cent 3.4

Indication and code Other viral infections (080-085, 087-096), Number 2, Per cent 0.1

Indication and code All other, Number 1, Per cent 0.1

Indication and code Neoplasms, Number 197, Per cent 11.6

Indication and code Malignant, breast (170), Number 19, Per cent 1.1

Indication and code Malignant, female genitourinary organs (171-176), Number 5, Per cent 0.3

Indication and code All other malignant (180-205), Number 24, Per cent 1.5

Indication and code Benign, uterus (214-215), Number 143, Per cent 8.4

Indication and code All other benign (216-239), Number 143, Per cent 8.4

Indication and code Complications of pregnancy (640-649), Number 77, Per cent 4.5

Indication and code Pyelitis and Pyelonephritis (640), Number 22, Per cent 1.3

Indication and code Toxemia of pregnancy (642), Number 44, Per cent 2.6

Indication and code All other, Number 11, Per cent 0.6

Indication and code Allergic, endocrine, metabolic conditions (240-289), Number 46, Per cent 2.7

Indication and code Thyrotoxicosis (252), Number 26, Per cent 1.5

Indication and code Diabetes (260), Number 7, Per cent 0.4

Indication and code Asthma (241), Number 11, Per cent 0.6,/p>

Indication and code All other, Number 2, Per cent 0.1

Indication and code Genitourinary system diseases (590-637), Number 42, Per cent 2.5

Indication and code Nephritis and nephrosis (590-594), Number 21, Per cent 1.2

Indication and code All other, Number 21, Per cent 1.2

Indication and code Nervous system and sense organ disease (330-398), Number 47, Per cent 2.8

Indication and code Multiple Sclerosis (345), Number 15, Per cent 0.9

Indication and code Epilepsy (353), Number 11, Per cent 0.6

Indication and code Otosclerosis (396), Number 15, Per cent 0.9

Indication and code All other, Number 6, Per cent 0.4

Indication and code Rh incompatibility (299), Number 25, Per cent 1.5

Indication and code Other indications, Number 123, Per cent 7.2

Indication and code Ill-defined indications, Number 12, Per cent 0.7

*Code is International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, 6th Revision, 1948.

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