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"Where not to be born in the 1860s: How Florence Nightingale and her
contemporaries used maternal mortality statistics"
ALISON MACFARLANE (Department of Midwifery, City University)
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 at 6 pm
Room A161, Lindop Building, College Lane Campus,
University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield
"In 1862, Florence Nightingale opened a 'lying-in' ward at King's College
Hospital in London to provide training for midwives. She closed it five
years later because of its high maternal mortality rate. To investigate
reasons for this, she assembled maternal mortality data from institutions
in many parts of Europe and corresponded with some of the people concerned.
Some of the problems they encountered in trying to interpret the
differences they found are still with us today."
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