Fatal complications of illegal abortions performed in 1920-1939 based on the archival material of the Department of Forensic Medicine in Krakow.

Aim: Analysis of different methods of performing illegal abortions and causes of death in women who underwent the procedure during the interwar period.

Material And Methods: The study was based on the autopsy protocols from 1920-1939 archived at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum in Krakow, Poland. The analysis comprised the deaths of women during pregnancy or in the perinatal period.