CHILD-BED MORTALIY IN LONDON MATERNITY HOSPITALS.

Dietaries in maternity hospitals.

Several comprehensive studies of hospital feeding have been planned to show as precisely as possible the nutritive value of representative diets provided in hospitals for patients and staff. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland has been carefully examining the problem of hospital diets and has made surveys and will publish a report in due course. The purpos...

Defunct London Eye Hospitals.

SPEAKING of ophthalmic hospitals and schools in England, William White Cooper related in 1857, before the First International Ophthalmological Congress,' that of the then existing eye hospitals in London two were founded in 1804: The Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, established by Mr. Wathen, oculist to George III, and Moorfields, by John Cunningham Saunders. An editorial in the Ophthal...

London and Liverpool Hospitals

hospitals the income figure on which the percentages are based consists of all income received by the general funds of the various hospitals with the exception of money raised by the special appeal (total ?243,115). The income figure for the Liverpool hospitals includes all money received during the yearb y the institutions (that is, general and other smaller funds). The total of the Voluntary ...

Maternity and child welfare.

going to implement the Scheme, Mr. Sargent addressing the East India Association some months ago said, 'I am old enough in Government service to realise that almost anybody who is not mentally defective, and some of those who are, can produce a report of some kind. What matters, and what is even more difficult in India than elsewhere, is to translate the report into action. My experience in Ind...

Maternity and Child-Welfare