[5]. One case had gastric fever on admission, and in two cases puerperal peritonitis came on after instrumental delivery.
[6]. In 1868, 69, 70, there were in Liverpool workhouse, 1,416 deliveries, including 20 premature, and 6 deaths from all causes, of which 3 at least were non-puerperal. The total death-rate was only 4·2 per 1,000. There were 13 London workhouses in which, in 5 years, 2,459 deliveries, but no deaths in childbed, took place.
[7]. Exclusive of a fatal case delivered in a cab.
[8]. One delivery took place in a cab, and the woman died in hospital.
[9]. Husson, ‘Étude sur les Hôpitaux,’ p. 254.
[10]. Tables XI., XII., XIII., abstracted from the ‘Statistique médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris.’
[11]. This drain was shown on the Plan from which Plate I. is taken.
[12]. Premature births: Seven months, 8; deaths, 5; six months, 6; deaths, 6; five months, 1; death, 1.
[13]. 1 puerperal convulsions, 1 bowel disease.
[14]. 1 after instrumental labour, 1 metritis.