At nine months, length of child 18 to 22 inches; weight, 7 to 8 pounds;
skin rosy; lanugo only about shoulders; sebaceous matter on the body;
hair on head about an inch long; testes past inguinal ring; clitoris
covered by the labia; membrana pupillaris disappeared; nails reach to
ends of fingers; meconium at termination of large intestine; points of
ossification in centre of cartilage at lower end of femur, about 1-1/2
to 2-1/2 lines in diameter; umbilicus midway between the ensiform
cartilage and pubis.
Owing to the difficulty of proving that the crime of infanticide has
been committed, the woman may in England be tried for _concealment of
birth_, and in Scotland for _concealment of pregnancy_, if she conceal
her pregnancy during the whole time and fail to call for assistance in
the birth. Either of these charges would only be brought against a woman
who had obviously been pregnant, and now the child is missing or its
dead body has been found. It is expected that every pregnant woman
should make provision for the child about to be born, and so should have
talked about it or have made clothes, etc., for it. The punishment for
concealment is imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
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