Note 16 — DEATH-RATES IN LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS.
Reading edition
The approximate number of deliveries, 6396, given elsewhere, is rather under the mark than over, as will be seen by this Table, and is taken in order to be on the safe side. For, up to the three last years, the numbers are rather estimated than reckoned from the records. The total annual average deliveries calculated from different monthly records, i. e. 10 years of months = 500 in round numbers—1858–1867.
The three years 1868–9–70, for which only there are accurate records, speak for themselves; and they show that the death-rate is marvellously low: not higher than in the healthy districts of England.