Introductory notes on lying-in institutions

If I may dedicate, without ‘permission,’ these small ‘Notes’ to the shade of Socrates’ Mother, may I likewise, without presumption, call to my help the questioning shade of her...

TABLE I.—_Mortality after Childbirth in England, 1867_ (_Registrar-General’s Thirtieth Annual Report_). ┌────────┬──────────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────────┬────────┬────────┐ │...

┌───────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Station │ │ │ │ Causes of Death │ ├───────────┼─────────┬────────┬────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┤ │ „...

TABLE X.—_Table Showing the Death-rate from all Causes amongst Women Delivered in Lying-in Hospitals._ (_Abstracted from Dr. Le Fort’s ‘Des Maternités.’_) ┌─────────────────────...

From these facts Dr. Le Fort concludes that the relative mortality in small and large establishments is not favourable to small hospitals, _per se_. The benefit of subdivision m...

Table XIV. ┌────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ All Women’s Hospitals (Military) │ ├────────────┼──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────...

_Summary of Deaths and Causes of Death in the Lying-in Wards of Liverpool Workhouse for Years 1858–1870._ ┌────────────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬──...

TABLE XV., _abstracted from_ TABLES III. _and_ X., _showing Comparative Mortality among Lying-in Women in Hospitals and at Home_. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┬───...

In the medical officer’s room should be kept the instruments, to which a fully qualified head midwife also has a key. The medical officer keeps the notes of cases, &c., and of i...

This plan gives a sketch of an arrangement of pavilions, offices, quarters, &c., forming a complete lying-in institution and training school. As already stated, such an institut...