TABLE VIII.—_Mortality per Thousand from all Causes after Delivery._ (_Abstracted from Official Reports and Returns._) ┌───────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬─────────┬───────────┐ │ Places │ │ │ Deaths per│ │ │ │ │ Thousand│ │ │Deliveries │ Deaths │ Deliveries│ ├───────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┼───────────┤ │12 Parisian hospitals {1861 │ 7,309│ │ 95·1│ │ „ {1862 │ 7,027│ │ 69·7│ │ „ {1863 │ 7,289│ │ 70·3│ │King’s College Hospital, 1862–7 │ 780[7]│ 26│ 33·3│ │Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, 1857–61 │ 6,521│ 169│ 26·0│ │Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in │ │ │ │ │ Hospital, 1828–68 │ 9,626│ 244│ 25·3│ │British Lying-in Institution, 11 │ │ │ │ │ years, 1858–68 │ 1,741│ 25│ 14·3│ │City of London Lying-in Hospital, │ │ │ │ │ 1859–68 │ 4,966│ 54│ 10·9│ │8 military lying-in hospitals, 2 to│ │ │ │ │ 12 years │ 5,575│ 50│ 8·8│ │Liverpool Workhouse Lying-in Wards,│ │ │ │ │ 13 years, 1858–70 │ 6,396│ 58│ 9·06│ │40 London workhouse infirmaries, 5 │ │ │ │ │ years │ 11,870│ 93│ 7·8│ │1 military lying-in hospital (a │ │ │ │ │ wooden hut) 1865–70 │ 252│ 0│ 0│ │All England, 1867 │ 768,349│ 3,933│ 5·1│ └───────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┴───────────┘ The lying-in wards of King’s College Hospital, years 1862–1867 (Table IX.), gave 27 deaths—a death-rate of 33·3 per 1,000 on 780 deliveries. TABLE IX.—_Mortality after Childbirth in Lying-in Ward, King’s College Hospital, 1862 to 1867._ ┌──────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────────┬───────┬───────┐ │Deliveries│ Deaths │ Deaths │ Deaths │Deaths from│Deaths │ Total │ │ │ from │ from │ from │Consumption│ from │Deaths │ │ │Puerperal│Accidents │Miasmatic│ and Chest │ all │ │ │ │Diseases │ in │Diseases │ Diseases │ Other │ │ │ │ │Childbirth│ │ │Causes │ │ ├──────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────┼───────┼───────┤ │ 781[8]│ 23│ 1[8]│ 0│ 1│ 2│ 27│ └──────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┴───────────┴───────┴───────┘