This is clearly shown in the ‘Statistique médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris,’ kindly supplied to me by M. Husson, the Director of the General Administration of ‘Public Assistance’ at Paris, of whose many proofs of ability, activity, and benevolence, it is not here the place to speak. From this the following facts are abstracted. The death-rates are therein given for 12 hospitals receiving lying-in cases, only one of which, however, is a lying-in hospital (the ‘Maison d’accouchement’), and will be found in Tables XI., XII., XIII. In 1861 the average death-rate in these establishments was no less than 95·1 per 1,000. In 1862 it was 69·7 per 1,000. In 1863 it was 70·3 per 1,000. TABLE XI.—_Mortality per Thousand among Lying-in Women at the undermentioned Parisian Hospitals during the Year 1861. (Abstracted from ‘Statistique Médicale des Hôpitaux,’ 1861.)_ ┌──────────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐ │ Hospital │ Total │ Mortality per Thousand │ │ │Deliveries│ │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┬─────────────┬──────────┤ │ „ │ „ │Puerperal │Non-Puerperal│ Total │ │ │ │ │ │ Deaths │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤ │Hôtel Dieu │ 1,057│ 43·5│ 16·1│ 59·6│ │Pitié │ 468│ 72·6│ 34·2│ 106·8│ │Charité │ 253│ 154·2│ 39·7│ 193·7│ │St. Antoine │ 350│ 71·4│ 34·3│ 105·7│ │Necker │ 234│ 29·9│ 29·9│ 59·8│ │Cochin │ 56│ 142·9│ 35·7│ 178·6│ │Beaujon │ 276│ 43·5│ 3·6│ 47·1│ │Lariboisière │ 782│ 69·1│ 15·3│ 84·4│ │St. Louis │ 802│ 58·6│ 13·7│ 72·3│ │Lourcine │ 41│ 24·4│ │ 24·4│ │Cliniques │ 875│ 75·4│ 34·3│ 109·7│ │Maison d’Accouchements│ 2,115│ 99·8│ 12·8│ 112·5│ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤ │ Total │ 7,309│ 75·2│ 19·8│ 95·1│ └──────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴──────────┘