3. No means of removing outside the building febrile or other cases of
puerperal diseases from the vicinity of patients recovering after
delivery.
Since 1856, notwithstanding the great improvements, the death-rates per
1,000 have been 12·2, 8·8, 81·2, 70·3, 54·2, 39·2, 15·5, and so on: in
several years very considerably larger than the mortality which led to
the closing of the lying-in wards in King’s College Hospital. These
varying deaths lead to the exercise of much caution in drawing
conclusions as to their causes; but the main fact remains, namely, there
are the death-rates, and they are many times greater than occur among
London poor women delivered at home.
_Midwifery Wards, King’s College Hospital._—The following plan shows the
provision which existed for training midwifery nurses at King’s College
Hospital.
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