Hospitalism and zymotic diseases : as more especially illustrated by puerperal fever, or metria a paper read in the hall of the College of Physicians, on the 13th of March and 10th of April, 1869, before the Obstetrical Society of Dublin also, a reply to the criticisms of seventeen physicians upon this paper delivered on the 10th of July, 1869 / by Evory Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, Evory, 1806-1886
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1869
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Credit: Hospitalism and zymotic diseases : as more especially illustrated by puerperal fever, or metria a paper read in the hall of the College of Physicians, on the 13th of March and 10th of April, 1869, before the Obstetrical Society of Dublin also, a reply to the criticisms of seventeen physicians upon this paper delivered on the 10th of July, 1869 / by Evory Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX C. “South Dublin Union, “ Clerk’s Office, Board-room, James’s-street, “ 26th day of June, 1869. u Dear Sir,—I have carefully examined the birth register, and the register of midwifery cases, for the years 1865-6-7-8, and beg to give you the following return :— Year. No. of Births. No. of Deaths of Mothers. 1865, 124 , Nil. 1866, 116 ... Nil. 1867, 114 . 2 1868, 122 • Nil. Total, 476 2 “ Faithfully yours, “ George Hepburn, Clerk of the Union. “ Evory Kennedy, Esq., M.D.” APPENDIX D. Detailed Report of Mortality in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, year by year, from its foundation to 1868, proving it the habitat of metria, and that puerperal fever is now endemic in it, and also shewing the relation existing between the mortality and crowding. The present Dublin Lying-in Hospital was opened in 1757. In 1760 the deliveries were increased from 406 to 556 ; the mortality, which was in this year 1 in 139, rose in the next year to 1 in 52. The deliveries were increased from 533 to 681 in 1766, when the death-rate stood at 1 in 227, and the death-rate rose in the next year to 1 in 60, and the year after, with the deliveries at 655, it was 1 in 41. The deliveries were increased to 1 in 704 in the year 1772, when the death-rate was 1 in 176, and the next year the mortality was 1 in 52, and the year after 1 in 32. The deliveries rose in 1778 to 927, and the same year the death-rate rose from 1 in 119 to 1 in 92. In 1780 the deliveries were diminished by 100, as compared to the preceding year, and the mortality fell from 1 in 126 to 1 in 183. In 1783 the deliveries were increased from 990, when the mortality was 1 in 165, to 1,167, and the death-rate rose to 1 in 77. In 1786, 1787, the deliveries stood at 1,351 and 1,347; the mortality at 1 in 170 and 1 in 134. In the following year the deliveries increased to 1,469 ; the death-rate to 1 in 64. In 1790 the deliveries were again