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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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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    INTRODUCTION. Dispensaries may, justly, be ranked among^ the most useful of the charitable institutions established for the relief of suffering humanity. England can boast of having been the first nation where philanthropy, ever ready to succour the needy and cheer the afflicted, devised, under the above appropriate name, a new, prompt, and delicate mode of dispensing charitable assistance to the sick poor. Her example has been followed, though tardily, by other nations ; and, wherever this has been done, the same gra¬ tifying results have been obtained.^ * The Philanthropic Society of Paris, with a view to extend the benefits of their Institution to the sick as well as to the poor, have established five Dispensaries, three to the South, and two to the North of the Seine, in the midst of the most populous districts of the city, nearly on the footing of those of London. The admissions into these Dispensaries, during late years, taken collectively, amount to about 1600, being rather more than one-fourth of the number admitted by the Westminster General Dispensary in the course of a year. B