Project Gutenberg 2024-06-20 Public domain in the USA. 541 Nightingale, Florence 1820 1910 Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses $aLondon :$bLongmans, Green and Co., $c1871. Richard 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) "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.) https://archive.org/details/b20407774 20231008065318nightingal 1871 GB Reading ease score: 58.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Women's hospitals RG Text Category: Health & Medicine Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 336158 2026-08-29T08:08:45.677022 text/html 309985 2024-06-20T14:26:28 text/html 2310897 2026-08-29T08:08:55.015007 application/epub+zip 2311438 2026-08-29T08:08:49.085046 application/epub+zip 453060 2026-08-29T08:08:47.006036 application/epub+zip 3359988 2026-08-29T08:08:58.682980 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3355648 2026-08-29T08:08:53.526965 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275992 2026-08-29T08:08:43.836997 text/plain; charset=utf-8 255955 2024-06-20T14:26:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15674 2026-08-29T08:08:59.021938 application/rdf+xml 25768 2026-08-29T08:08:47.584017 image/jpeg 2997 2026-08-29T08:08:47.350010 image/jpeg 3610948 2026-08-29T08:08:45.739029 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia