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Introductory Notes on Lying-In Institutions - Together with a Proposal for Organising an Institution for Training Midwives and Midwifery Nurses (Paperback)
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Introductory Notes on Lying-In Institutions - Together with a Proposal for Organising an Institution for Training Midwives and Midwifery Nurses (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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The greatest postnatal killer of the nineteenth century was
puerperal fever. A vicious and usually fatal form of septicaemia,
puerperal or childbed fever was known to occur in maternity
hospitals far more frequently than at home births, and to spread
faster in crowded wards than in those with fewer patients. Its
cause was unknown. In this precise statistical analysis of the
facts, gathered from several sources across the major cities of
Europe, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) explores the mystery of
puerperal fever and its possible causes. She stresses the necessity
of good ventilation in hospitals, condemning those with overcrowded
wards, and cites instances where the layout of wards has a
noticeable correlation with the number of deaths. Published in
1871, just before Pasteur's work on germ theory proved that the
problem could be all but eradicated if doctors washed their hands
more rigorously, this work remains clear, scholarly and engaging.
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