| Table VI.—Mortality after Childbirth in Five Years, up to the end of 1865, in Forty London Workhouse Infirmaries in which Deliveries took place. (Abstracted from Report on Metropolitan Workhouses.) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliveries | Deaths from Puerperal Diseases | Deaths from Accidents in Childbirth | Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases | Deaths from Consumption and Chest Diseases | Deaths from all Other Causes | Total Deaths | ||
| 27 | workhouses: | 9,411 | 39 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 19 | 93 |
| 13 | „ | 2,459 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The City of London Lying-in Institution, during ten years, 1859–1868, had 4,966 deliveries, and 54 deaths—a rate of 10·9 per 1,000.
The British Lying-in Institution had 1,741 deliveries, and 25 deaths, in 11 years, 1858–1868, giving a death-rate of 14·3 per 1,000 (Table VIII.).
The mortality in Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital: 9,626 deliveries, and 244 deaths, from 1828 to 1868 (Table VII.), was 25·3 per 1,000.
| Table VII.—Mortality in Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital, 1828 to 1868. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliveries | Deaths from Puerperal Diseases | Deaths from Accidents in Childbirth | Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases | Deaths from Consumption and Chest Diseases | Deaths from all Other Causes | Total Deaths |
| 9,626 | 138 | 51 | 8 | 32 | 15 | 244 |
The Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, with 6,521 deliveries in the years 1857–1861, yielded 169 deaths—a death-rate of 26 per 1,000. But, if we take the years 1828–1861, with 63,621 deliveries, we find that the deaths were 924, and the death-rate only 14·5 per 1,000—the average annual number of deliveries being almost as many thousands as in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital were hundreds.
| Table VIII.—Mortality per Thousand from all Causes after Delivery. (Abstracted from Official Reports and Returns.) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Places | Deliveries | Deaths | Deaths per Thousand Deliveries | |
| 12 Parisian hospitals | {1861 | 7,309 | 95·1 | |
| {1862 | 7,027 | 69·7 | ||
| {1863 | 7,289 | 70·3 | ||
| King’s College Hospital, 1862–7 | 780[[7]] | 26 | 33·3 | |
| Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, 1857–61 | 6,521 | 169 | 26·0 | |
| Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in Hospital, 1828–68 | 9,626 | 244 | 25·3 | |
| British Lying-in Institution, 11 years, 1858–68 | 1,741 | 25 | 14·3 | |
| City of London Lying-in Hospital, 1859–68 | 4,966 | 54 | 10·9 | |
| 8 military lying-in hospitals, 2 to 12 years | 5,575 | 50 | 8·8 | |
| Liverpool Workhouse Lying-in Wards, 13 years, 1858–70 | 6,396 | 58 | 9·06 | |
| 40 London workhouse infirmaries, 5 years | 11,870 | 93 | 7·8 | |
| 1 military lying-in hospital (a wooden hut) 1865–70 | 252 | 0 | 0 | |
| All England, 1867 | 768,349 | 3,933 | 5·1 | |
The lying-in wards of King’s College Hospital, years 1862–1867 (Table IX.), gave 27 deaths—a death-rate of 33·3 per 1,000 on 780 deliveries.
| Table IX.—Mortality after Childbirth in Lying-in Ward, King’s College Hospital, 1862 to 1867. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliveries | Deaths from Puerperal Diseases | Deaths from Accidents in Childbirth | Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases | Deaths from Consumption and Chest Diseases | Deaths from all Other Causes | Total Deaths |
| 781[[8]] | 23 | 1[[8]] | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27 |
Lamentable as are these death-rates in many British institutions, they are small in comparison with those which have ruled in many foreign hospitals.