An account of the Lying-in Charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations : instituted 1757.

  • Lying-in Charity (London, England)
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Printed in the year 1780
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Credit: An account of the Lying-in Charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations : instituted 1757. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V t >o ] found fufficient to relieve Four thouiand Four hundred and Seventy-five Women. How impraSkicable were the Attempt to eredt and endow Holpitals for fuch a Multitude ? And yet a much larger Number would rejoice, and do lolicit to partake of this Charity * In proportion to its having been more known, it has increafed in the Favor of the Public. Honored with the Patronage of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of WALK $, it afpires to univerfal Notice and Efteem. Should the Subfcriptions hill greatly increafe, to how large a Circle of poor People may it com¬ municate Affiftance ; and, with the Blefling of Providence, how many Lives of Women and Children may it preferve ! It has been objected to this Charity, that the Affiftance it affords at prefent is too Jlender % that the fupplying the Poor with Midwives and Medicines is but a fmall and ineffedtual Relief: But, let it be duly weighed, that if the Affiftance was greater, only few Perfons in comparifon could be benefited ; and it will hardly be denied, but that it is 'better to impart even a fcanty Supply to many, in