Some Modern Maternity Hospitals, with Plans and Illustrations. III.. BELFAST MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

Fetal rights. The first Belfast Royal Maternity Hospital Perinatal Lecture.

When I was in the Royal Navy during the last War we were always told that we had no rights to insist on, only privileges to be earned. Nowadays, rightly or wrongly, it is generally accepted the world over that everyone has rights: the right to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. What then of the human fetus? As far as happiness is concerned I suppose we can never know for sure wh...

Survival of Premature Infants Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, 1952-1963

GENERAL MANAGEMENT The Special Care Baby Unit contains approximately 40 cots and incubators. It has its own senior nursing staff, and consultant paediatric medical staff who also hold appointments at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Babies admitted to the nursery are nursed either in cots or in incubators with high humidity at a temperature of 85-95°F. depending on their weight and...

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...

The Royal Maternity Hospital

the rectum. In the aard-vark the testes occupy an intermediate position within the inguinal canal, but here there is reason to believe that they descend into the scrotum during the mating season. The testes of active creatures like ungulates, carnivores, and primates lie within a post-penile scrotum, where they are free from violent changes in pressure and are kept in the position of greatest s...

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