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100 1 _aNightingale, Florence,
_d1820-1910
245 1 0 _aIntroductory notes on lying-in institutions
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2024-06-20
508 _aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Introductory Notes on Lying-In Institutions" by Florence Nightingale is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This work discusses the establishment and management of maternity hospitals, addressing issues such as mortality rates and their causes in lying-in institutions. Nightingale aims to propose solutions for training midwives and improving the conditions for delivering women, thereby enhancing maternal care. The opening of this work sets the stage for a critical examination of midwifery practices following concerning statistics regarding maternal mortality rates. Nightingale details her observations from a training institution that reported a significantly high death rate of women due to puerperal diseases during its operation, leading to the closure of its wards. She emphasizes the need for better training for midwives and evaluates the environmental and procedural factors contributing to fatalities, proposing that better management of lying-in institutions could drastically reduce risks associated with childbirth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Longmans, Green and Co., 1871
653 _aWomen's hospitals
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/b20407774
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73878
999 _c114603
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