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1.1. The incidence of fibromyomas in Negro women residing in the neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, is three and one-third times that of white women.2.2. Sixty per cent of white women had tumors smaller than 5 cm. in diameter. Sixty-six per cent of the Negro women had tumors larger than 5 cm. in diameter.3.3. Chronic salpingitis was found in one-sixth of the white and more than one-half of the Negro patients with fibromyoma. On the other hand, 40 per cent of all operations for chronic salpingitis revealed complicating fibromyomas.4.4. Necrosis in general was about twice as frequent in the tumors of the Negro women as in those of the white women.5.5. Fibromyomas were found to be relatively free from malignant complications, but sarcomas were more frequent in the Negro, while carcinomas were more common in the white women.6.6. Complicating ovarian changes revealed follicular and corpus luteum cysts to be relatively frequent, cystadenoma to be present in 2 per cent of all fibromyomas, and dermoid cysts in 1 per cent of the white and in 2 per cent of the Negro patients.

In the literature of the past 30 years there are only brief, infrequent, and contradictory statements regarding anemia as an etiological factor of dystrophic dystocia and/or prolonged labor.

1.1. Malaria complicated pregnancy in this locality during a period of twenty years, once in 727 live white births and once in 2,260 negro livebirths recorded.2.2. With the youngest patient 15 and the oldest 41, three-fourths were under 26 years of age. Two-thirds were in the last trimester of pregnancy. It was more frequent in white women.3.3. The symptoms were mainly those of recurrent high fever and anemia. Most were treated with quinine, and its effect in regard to pregnancy was studied.4.4. The maternal mortality was about 4 per cent; fetal approximately 60 per cent. It seems that an attack of malaria is more fatal to the fetus if occurring early in pregnancy and more dangerous to the mother if occurring late.5.5. The maternal blood of the placenta apparently becomes a store-house for the malarial parasites, but in no case could we find them in the fetal blood.

1.1. Study of the superior strait in 400 negro female pelves by Thoms' grid method revealed more anthropoid and less android types of pelves than occur in the white patients as studied by Caldwell and others.2.2. A device is illustrated (Fig. 2) for simplifying Thoms' grid method so that the superior strait may be viewed and measured from an 8 by 10 inch film and a technician may complete the procedure in ten minutes.3.3. The inlet to the majority of negro female pelves is essentially round in agreement with Thoms' findings in white women.4.4. The operative incidence of the negro women may be less than in the whites partially because of less occurrence of android type of pelves.