Note 6 — DEATH-RATES IN LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS.
Reading edition
In 1868, 69, 70, there were in Liverpool workhouse, 1,416 deliveries, including 20 premature, and 6 deaths from all causes, of which 3 at least were non-puerperal. The total death-rate was only 4·2 per 1,000. There were 13 London workhouses in which, in 5 years, 2,459 deliveries, but no deaths in childbed, took place.