A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818. Including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818. Including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    her feelings;—or she is forced to apply for admission at the door of a Lying-in Hospital^ where she becomes a conspicuous object of pub¬ lic charity. Few, even among the most obscure classes of society, can calmly endure such mor¬ tifications ; and few, in truth, apply to such establishments, unless driven to it by the absolute want of every necessary of life—sometimes even of an habitation. The institution of Lying-in Dispensaries has at once removed the necessity of such an alternative. Nothing can be more creditable to the feelings of the public, by whom both the Work-houses and the Lying-in Hospitals are supported, than the manner in which they are conducted; and in drawing a comparison between them and the Dispensaries, it is far from my wish to place the former in any improper light. But, when it is considered, that with the exception of a single matter of form, namely, that of entering on the register the letter of recommendation from a Governor, the assistance which the lying-in wo¬ man obtains from a dispensary, dilfers in nothing