On the Construction and Salubrity of Maternity Hospitals
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Sir James Simpson, in compliance with the request of the Society, gave an address on the Construction and Salubrity of Maternity Hospitals. In the course of his remarks, Sir James showed that childbirth is attended with greater mortality in city than in country practice; that it is more fatal in hospital than in dispensary and home practice; that in hospitals its higher death-rate was not the result of crowding, but of puerperal fever, contagion also, and other influences; etc. He thought that in lying-in hospitals the patients should be isolated as much as possible?one or two patients only being placed in each room; that if larger wards were used, the patients should be as few as possible; that every
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