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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 XIV.
┌────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │ All Women’s Hospitals (Military) │
├────────────┼──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────────┬──────────┤
│ │ Puerperal│ Accidents│Diseases and│ Others│ Total│
│ │ Diseases│ of│Accidents of│ │ Mortality│
│ │ │Childbirth│ Childbirth│ │ │
├────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│Deaths per │ 3·9│ 3·4│ 7·3│ 1·5│ 8·8│
│ 1,000 │ │ │ │ │ │
│ deliveries│ │ │ │ │ │
├────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤
│ │
├────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ Aldershot Women’s Hospital │
├────────────┼──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────────┬──────────┤
│ │ Puerperal│ Accidents│Diseases and│ Others│ Total│
│ │ Diseases│ of│Accidents of│ │ Mortality│
│ │ │Childbirth│ Childbirth│ │ │
├────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│Deaths per │ 4·9│ 3·9│ 8·8│ 1·3│ 10·1│
│ 1,000 │ │ │ │ │ │
│ deliveries│ │ │ │ │ │
├────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤
│ │
├────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ Other Women’s Hospitals, excluding Aldershot │
├────────────┼──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────────┬──────────┤
│ │ Puerperal│ Accidents│Diseases and│ Others│ Total│
│ │ Diseases│ of│Accidents of│ │ Mortality│
│ │ │Childbirth│ Childbirth│ │ │
├────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│Deaths per │ 2·7│ 2·7│ 5·4│ 2·0│ 7·4│
│ 1,000 │ │ │ │ │ │
│ deliveries│ │ │ │ │ │
└────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
There are two camp hospitals for lying-in cases, consisting only of
wooden huts, appropriated for the purpose, which have yielded very
important experience. One of these is at Colchester, the other at
Shorncliffe.
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