Laws, orders, and regulations, of the Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital.

  • Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital
Date:
1793
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Credit: Laws, orders, and regulations, of the Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wife *, but at the fame time (hall have power, if aggrieved by any perfon in the Hofpital, to apply far redrefs to the Ordinary Phyfician, or to any of the Ordinary Directors, The diet of the Patients fhall be regulated by the Ordinary Phyfician, and no other articles of food, except thofe pre¬ fer i bed by him, fhall be allowed. No perfon fhall be permitted to bring any fermented or fpirituous liquors into the Hofpital, without an order from the Phyfician. No Patient fhall be allowed to leave the Hofpital without her child or children, if it or they be alive. The children born in the Hofpital fhall be baptized before they be taken away. Every Patient fhall, on her difmifiion, if fhe {hall have conformed to the above Regulations, and fhall have behaved properly in every refpeft, receive the fum of Five Shillings Sterling, from which no dedu&ion fhall be made by the Nurfe or Nurfes, on any pretence whatever. If any Patient fhall unfortunately die, notice thereof fhall be immediately fent to the perfon or perfons who had figned the obligation required on the ad million of Patients ; and if fuch perfon or perfons do not take charge of the funeral, the Midwife fhall caufe the body to be buried in the mofl decent economical manner; and the expence fhall be defray¬ ed by the perfon or perfons who figned the obligation. Of the Pupils of the Hofpital. Male Pupils. ' Srfifc' THE Gentlemen who attend the lectures of the PfofefTor of Midwifery are alone intitled to become Pupils of the Hof¬ pital. Each Gentleman fhall pay the fum of Ten Shillings and Sixpence m