TABLE XIII.—_Mortality per Thousand among Lying-in Women at the undermentioned Parisian Hospitals during the Year 1863. (Abstracted from ‘Statistique Médicale des Hôpitaux’, 1863.)_ ┌──────────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐ │ Hospital │ Total │ Mortality per Thousand │ │ │Deliveries│ │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┬─────────────┬──────────┤ │ „ │ „ │Puerperal │Non-Puerperal│ Total │ │ │ │ │ │ Deaths │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤ │Hôtel Dieu │ 925│ 26·7│ 4·1│ 30·8│ │La Pitié │ 544│ 44·1│ 1·8│ 46·0│ │Charité │ 256│ 66·4│ 19·5│ 85·9│ │St. Antoine │ 410│ 63·4│ 11·6│ 78·0│ │Necker │ 232│ 38·8│ 21·6│ 60·3│ │Cochin │ 68│ 73·5│ 14·7│ 88·2│ │Beaujon │ 313│ 19·2│ 12·8│ 31·9│ │Lariboisière │ 870│ 31·0│ 9·2│ 40·2│ │St. Louis │ 871│ 23·0│ 9·2│ 32·1│ │Lourcine │ 43│ 27·9│ │ 27·9│ │Clinique │ 751│ 30·6│ 18·6│ 49·3│ │Maison d’Accouchements│ 2,006│ 130·1│ 7·4│ 137·6│ ├──────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┤ │ Total │ 7,289│ 60·6│ 9·7│ 70·3│ └──────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴──────────┘ _CLASSIFICATION OF CAUSES OF MORTALITY IN LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS._ The next thing is to endeavour to show to what causes these death-rates are to be attributed. Unfortunately Dr. Le Fort’s tables do not enable us to distinguish the causes of death. But the data supplied by British and Parisian hospitals allow the causes to be classified to a certain extent under the heads adopted by the Registrar-General in his Reports. A classified arrangement of this kind is given in Table II., and may be resumed, with the view of showing the enormous differences in death-rates among puerperal women under different conditions, as follows:— _Mortality per 1,000._