_Admission of Students_ 25 _Effect of Numbers_ 26 _Danger of Puerperal Epidemics_ 31 _Fatality of Lying-in Wards in General Hospitals_ 32 INFLUENCE OF CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF LYING-IN WARDS ON THE DEATH-RATE 33 _Maternité, Paris_ 34 _Hôpital de la Clinique, Paris_ 36 _Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital, London_ 38 _Midwifery Wards, King’s College Hospital, London_ 40 IMPROVED LYING-IN WARD CONSTRUCTION 41 _Military Female Hospitals_ 41 TABLE XIV.—_Classification of Causes of Death in Childbirth in Eight Women’s Hospitals (Military)_ 43 _Proposed new Female Hospital at Portsmouth_ 45 SHOULD MEDICAL STUDENTS BE ADMITTED TO LYING-IN HOSPITAL PRACTICE? 48 INFLUENCE OF TIME SPENT IN A LYING-IN WARD ON THE DEATH-RATE 50 EFFECT OF GOOD MANAGEMENT ON THE SUCCESS OF LYING-IN ESTABLISHMENTS 52 _Liverpool Workhouse_ 53 _Summary of Cases Delivered in the Lying-in Wards of Liverpool Workhouse, 1868–1870_ 53 _Summary of Deaths and Causes of Death in the same, 1858–1870_ 54 _London Workhouses_ 58 MANAGEMENT OF MILITARY LYING-IN WARDS 62 NOTE _on altogether disconnecting Lying-in Institutions even with the very name of Hospital_ 64 RECAPITULATION 65 TABLE XV.—_Comparative Mortality among Lying-in Women in Hospitals and at Home_ 68 CAN THE ARRANGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS BE IMPROVED? 68