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Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses
Nightingale, Florence
Women's hospitals
TABLE II.—_Table Showing the Mortality per Thousand after Delivery from
Puerperal Diseases and Accidents of Childbirth._
┌────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│ Places │ Mortality Per Thousand │
│ │ Deliveries │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────┬──────────┬──────────┤
│ „ │ │ │Puerperal │
│ │ │ │ Diseases │
│ │ │ │ and │
│ │ │Accidents │Accidents │
│ │Puerperal │ of │ of │
│ │ Diseases │Childbirth│Childbirth│
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│King’s College lying-in ward, 5 │ │ │ │
│ years │ 29·4│ 0│ 29·4│
│12 Parisian Hospitals 1861 │ │ │ 75·2│
│ 1862 │ │ │ 56·7│
│ 1863 │ │ │ 60·6│
│Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital,│ │ │ │
│ 40 years │ 14·3│ 5·3│ 19·6│
│27 London workhouses, in which both │ │ │ │
│ deliveries and deaths have taken │ │ │ │
│ place │ 4·1│ 2·1│ 6·2│
│40 London workhouses, including │ │ │ │
│ those without deaths, 5 years │ 3·3│ 1·7│ 5·0│
│Liverpool Workhouse lying-in wards, │ │ │ │
│ 13 years │ 3·4│ 2·2│ 5·6│
│All England, 13 years │ 1·61│ 3·22│ 4·83│
│Ditto, 64 healthy districts │ │ │ │
│(312,402 deliveries), 10 years │ │ │ 4·3│
│Ditto, 11 large towns (1,402,304 │ │ │ │
│ deliveries), 10 years │ │ │ 4·9│
│8 military lying-in hospitals, 2 to │ │ │ │
│ 12 years │ 3·9│ 3·4│ 7·3│
└────────────────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
_NORMAL MORTALITY AMONG LYING-IN WOMEN IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES._
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