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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
_Summary of Cases Delivered in the Lying-in Wards of Liverpool
Workhouse 1868–9–70._
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────┬──────┐
│ │ Years │Total │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┼──────┬──────┬──────┼──────┤
│ „ │ 1868 │ 1869 │ 1870 │ │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤
│Number of women attended in labour: │ 511│ 443│ 442│ 1,396│
│ natural │ │ │ │ │
│Number of women attended in labour: │ 4│ 1│15[12]│ 20│
│ premature │ │ │ │ │
│Number of women attended in labour: │ 164│ 159│ 142│ 465│
│ married │ │ │ │ │
│Number of women attended in labour: │ 351│ 285│ 300│ 936│
│ single │ │ │ │ │
│ Males born │ 295│ 223│ 228│ 746│
│ Females born │ 216│ 225│ 223│ 664│
│Mothers who died in or from labour │ 2[13]│ 2[14]│ 2[15]│ 6│
│ Children born dead │ 79│ 58│ 58│ 195│
│Women confined at or above 40 years of │ 8│ 4│ 9│ 21│
│ age │ │ │ │ │
│Women confined at or below 20 years of │ 105│ 98│ 81│ 284│
│ age │ │ │ │ │
│Greatest age at delivery │ 46│ 42│ 44│ —│
│Youngest age at delivery │ 17│ 16│ 15│ —│
│Number of first confinements │ 223│ 207│ 105│ 535│
│ Twin births │ 1│ 5│ 7│ 13│
│ Triplets │ 0│ 0│ 1│ 1│
│Labours followed by flooding │ 3│ 0│ 0│ 3│
│Labours accompanied by convulsions │ 2│ 1│ 2│ 5│
│Labours accompanied by retained placenta │ 3│ 0│ 3│ 6│
│ Forceps cases │ 7│ 4│ 4│ 15│
│ Craniotomy cases │ 1│ 0│ 0│ 1│
│ Version cases │ 2│ 0│ 1│ 3│
│Presentations: head │ 484│ 426│ 425│ 1,335│
│Presentations: breech │ 22│ 12│ 15│ 49│
│Presentations: feet │ 4│ 10│ 11│ 25│
│Presentations: arm │ 1│ 0│ 0│ 1│
└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘
Subjoined is also a Table of the deaths and causes of death year by year
for 13 years:—
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