“…All authors are agreed that maternal cerebral and vascular accidents are very rarely encountered as hypertensive complications today. Accidental haemorrhage In a series of 673 hypertensive patients Browne (1958) found the incidence of accidental haemorrhage to be 6.6% whilst Gate (1960) reported only one case (1.4%) among his 73 patients with a blood-pressure in excess of I50/I00 mm. before the twentieth week of pregnancy.…”