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Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nursesNightingale, Florence

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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

Name: Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses
Author: Nightingale, Florence

Nightingale, Florence

Women's hospitals

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.’_)
 ┌────────────────────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬────────┬────────┐
 │    Maternity Hospitals     │  No. of   │          │        │ Deaths │
 │                            │ Years of  │          │        │  per   │
 │                            │Observation│Deliveries│ Deaths │Thousand│
 ├────────────────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────┼────────┤
 │Vienna                      │           │          │        │        │
 │  Maternité                 │         50│   103,731│   2,811│      25│
 │     „       Students’      │           │          │        │        │
 │               Clinique     │         30│   104,492│   5,560│      53│
 │     „       Midwives     „ │         30│    88,083│   3,064│      34│
 │     „       Académie       │           │          │        │        │
 │               Joséphine    │          1│       277│      24│      86│
 │Prague       Maternité      │         15│    41,477│   1,383│      33│
 │Munich              „       │          4│     4,064│      86│      21│
 │Göttingen           „       │          8│     1,029│      32│      32│
 │Gratz               „       │          3│     3,089│      97│      31│
 │Greifswald Clinique         │          4│       316│      18│      56│
 │Bremen Hospital             │          6│       139│      10│      71│
 │Halle Clinique              │          1│       102│       3│      29│
 │Berlin Clinique de          │           │          │        │        │
 │  l’Université              │          1│       401│      11│      27│
 │Frankfort-on-Main Maternité │          7│     1,213│      13│      10│
 │Leipzig      Ancienne      „│         46│     5,137│      89│      17│
 │     „       Nouvelle      „│          3│       594│      20│      33│
 │Pesth Clinique              │          5│     2,571│      86│      33│
 │Moscow Maternité de la      │           │          │        │        │
 │  Maison des Enfans Trouvés │         11│    11,556│     230│      19│
 │Ditto                       │         10│    16,721│     436│      26│
 │Ditto                       │         10│    27,759│     776│      28│
 │St.          Clinique de la │           │          │        │        │
 │  Petersburg   Faculté      │          6│       376│      34│      90│
 │     „       Hospital       │           │          │        │        │
 │               Kalinkin     │         15│     1,288│      20│      15│
 │     „       Institut des   │           │          │        │        │
 │               Sages        │           │          │        │        │
 │     „       Femmes         │         15│     8,036│     238│      29│
 │     „       Maternité des  │           │          │        │        │
 │               Enfans       │           │          │        │        │

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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 — John Shaqi

Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses

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