Deaths in Childbed and Our Lying-in Hospitals: Together with a Proposal for Establishing a Model Maternity Institution for Affording Clinical Instruction and for Training NursesSmith, Elder and Company, 1879 - 222 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10 - In case of the death of any person who has been attended during his last illness by a registered medical practitioner, that practitioner shall sign and give to some person required by this Act to give information concerning the death a certificate stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the cause of death, and such person shall, upon giving information concerning the death, or giving notice of the death, deliver that certificate to the registrar...
Pàgina 164 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Pàgina 164 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Pàgina 64 - With regard to the first question, Dr. Duncan regards the following laws as established : — " 1. The mortality of first labours is about twice the mortality of all subsequent labours taken together. 2. The mortality from puerperal fever following first labours is about twice the mortality from puerperal fever following all subsequent labours taken together. 3. As the number of a woman's labour increases above nine, the risk of death follows with the number.
Pàgina 34 - Wales 2,000,000 of people have probably been added since the census of 1871, the greater part of whom will be found in the towns. Now, according to our law, this should imply an increase of mortality ; and no doubt such an increase would have been observed had there not been a countervailing law in operation. (2.) The mortality was at the annual rate per 1,000 in the last three decenniads of 22-36 in 1841-50, 22'24 in 1851-60, and 22-51 in 1861-70. In the last seven years, 1871-7, the mortality was...
Pàgina 34 - ... enables us to determine the lifetime where the proximity is 46 yards. We will now draw some inferences from this law: that proximity and shortness of life go together. (1) The question is of the highest importance to England. Every town is surrounded by circles of new houses ; and at every census villages are found grown into new towns. Thus, in the last three censuses, the town population was set down at 8,990,809, 10,960,998, and 14,041,404 ; and to England and Wales 2,000,000...
Pàgina 33 - You know that nitrogen and oxygen are everywhere nearly the sanie in proportion ; but carbonic acid varies with the density of population, and there are exhalations — smokes — of various kinds from dead matter, as well as from living bodies. Every town has an atmosphere of its own. Nay, every street has its own peculiar atmosphere. I was going to say that every living being has its own atmosphere. Now, this atmosphere becomes in certain proportions deleterious, and I will proceed to show that...
Pàgina 10 - A person present at the death ; or, the occupier of the house in which the death happened. If all the above-named fail — 4.
Pàgina 109 - the negative have been received from all parts of the country, with the exception of Glasgow and Sheffield." From " several districts the replies indicate not merely a want of any special education, but gross ignorance and incompetence, and a complete inability to contend with any difficulty that may occur.
Pàgina 33 - o2Now, excluding the London districts, about which there is some difficulty, we have seven groups of districts where the mortality ranges thus: 17, 19, 22, 25, 28, 32, and 39. In the same districts the numbers of persons to a square mile are — 166, 186, 379, 1,718, 4,499, 12,357, and 65,823. Thus, in Liverpool, the densest and the unhealthiest district in England, there were 65,823 persons to a square mile; of whom 39 per 1,000 died annually.