Two statistical errors occurred in Monday's feature headed "Forced labour: how we manage women in childbirth". The report said that from a total of 108 maternity facilities in 1973, only 17 remained; this should have read 22.
The accompanying map omitted these five centres: four units in the South Eastern Health Board area, and one in the Midlands Health Board area. And the neonatal mortality rate for unplanned out-of-hospital births is 68 per 1,000 and not six per thousand, as stated in a panel.
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