Abstract

This author notes that "the epidemic offered the best opportunity we have perhaps ever had to study the extent to which the progress of pregnancy is interfered with by an acute, severe, infectious disease." Hence he constructed a questionnaire for physicians with the aim of accounting for their experience with complications suffered by pregnant women inflicted with influenza. The results are provided in a table format; however, the author reports that "no conclusions can be drawn... as to whether the incidence of influenza is greater among pregnant women than among nonpregnant women or men of the same age."