Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PBEFACE. In the year 1862 tlie Committee of the Nightingale Fund, with a view to extending the advantages of their Training Institution, entered into an arrangement witli the authorities of St. John's House, under which wards were fitted up in the new part of King's College Hospital, opening out of the great staircase and shut up within their own doors, for the reception of Midwifery cases. The wards were under the charge of the (then) Lady Superintendent. Arrangements were made for medical attendance, a skilled midwife was engaged, a certain number of pupil nurses were admitted for training; and hopes were entertained that this new branch of our Training School would confer a great benefit on the poor, especially in country districts, where trained Midwifery nurses are needed. Every precaution had apparently been taken to render the Midwifery Department perfectly safe; and it was not until the school had been upwards of five years in existence, that the attention of the Nightingale Committee was called