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of charity . In a Hundred years the extraordinary number of 385 , 488 women were thus attended at their own dwellings ; an average
of The nearl special y 4000 point a year , however . , on which the reports lay most stress
isthat the women are attended by practitioners of their own sex ; thirt a , large y-four staff ) of are carefull employed y educated under niidwives the superintendence ( of whom there are of now the
miles appointed of London in p — h the ysicians direction area . of These the from Charity midwives St . Paul 's operations ' s are Cathedral located ext . in ending They various to are three parts not _,
restricted every in the exercise of their profession to the patients of the excep Charit tion y solel , to y have , thoug the h such preference patients ; their are choice at services all times necessit are , and available without be to
any other persons who , either from or y , may th desirous ese occ of asions employ are ing not a midwife raresome instead of the of a midwives medical man having ; and from as
least fifteen of to the twent advant y private incident _jiatients , to per the month establishment , it is not of among the Royal the ages
Maternity Charity , that it is the means of keeping up a class of respectable Viewing , the intelli question gent midwives financiall for y , the such argument emergencies is greatl . y in favor could not
of home attendance . The thousands that are benefited hospitals thi at s any charge thing . includes The like _s ? _irage the not expense onl cost y medical of , each if at attendance patient all , be is connected received and only medicine 7 s . with int 3 d . o , , and but the the
rent management can be of refused office , . printing for No want costl , salaries y of building room , and and absorb every a certificate s item the income of , marriage no patient is
, remarkable the In onl a y sanitary test Two of eli point of gibility the of London view . , the Ling success -in-Hosp of the itals Charit have y latel lias y been been
wards temporaril but y . not closed a , sing to le check case the of y that fever fatal which disease was exhibited desolating itself the
during ; the past year ; and among the Charity ' s numerous patients , out of 4110 women attended in 1861 only eleven deaths from all
causes are , recorded : three of which were , the result of previous organic disease , reducing the real number of casualties to eight , or
one in 514 cases . perfectl Should acquainted any of our with lady the readers details desire of to this make excellent themselves and rational more
charity , y they can procure reports and all information from the
Secretary , at the office , 2 , Chatham Place , Blackfriars , London , E . C .
The Royal Maternity Charity269 -
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/53/
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