- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Appendix Tables
- Introduction
- 1 The Measurement of Maternal Mortality
- 2 Problems of Measuring Maternal Mortality
- 3 The Determinants of Maternal Mortality
- 4 Puerperal Fever
- 5 Toxaemia of Pregnancy and Eclampsia
- 6 Obstetric Haemorrhage
- 7 Abortion
- 8 Other Causes of Maternal Mortality
- 9 The Importance of International Comparisons
- 10 Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
- 11 The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Man-Midwifery
- 12 Maternal Care in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 13 Maternal Care in Britain, 1900–1935
- 14 Maternal Mortality in Britain from 1850 to the Mid-1930s
- 15 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Britain, 1935–1950
- 16 The Geography and Politics of Maternal Care in the USA: Introduction
- 17 Home Deliveries and the General Practitioner
- 18 The American Midwife
- 19 The American Lying-in Hospital, 1850–1910
- 20 Attitudes to Childbirth and the Problem of Pain
- 21 The Orgy of Interference
- 22 Maternal Mortality in the USA
- 23 Europe: Introduction
- 24 European Midwives
- 25 European Lying-in Hospitals and Obstetricians
- 26 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Selected European Countries
- 27 Australia and New Zealand
- 28 Maternal and Infant Mortality
- Appendix 1 Hidden Maternal Deaths
- Appendix 2 England and Wales: The Classification of Maternal Deaths
- Appendix 3 Reports on Maternal Mortality in the USA
- appendix 4 Numbers of Births and Statistical Significance
- Appendix 5 The Problem of Streptococcal Virulence
- Appendix 6 Tables
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
- Chapter:
- (p.158) 10 Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
- Source:
- Death in Childbirth
- Author(s):
Irvine Loudon
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines maternal mortality in pre-registration England, or the period covering 1800 to 1950. Data gathered from the London Bills of Mortality and parish registers suggests that there was a continuous and substantial decline in the maternal mortality rate in England from the second half of the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century. This trend may be attributed to an increase in the involvement of medical practitioners with children and to the significant rise in the number, status, skills, and efficiency of English midwives.
Keywords: maternal mortality, England, Bills of Mortality, parish registers, midwives
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Appendix Tables
- Introduction
- 1 The Measurement of Maternal Mortality
- 2 Problems of Measuring Maternal Mortality
- 3 The Determinants of Maternal Mortality
- 4 Puerperal Fever
- 5 Toxaemia of Pregnancy and Eclampsia
- 6 Obstetric Haemorrhage
- 7 Abortion
- 8 Other Causes of Maternal Mortality
- 9 The Importance of International Comparisons
- 10 Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
- 11 The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Man-Midwifery
- 12 Maternal Care in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 13 Maternal Care in Britain, 1900–1935
- 14 Maternal Mortality in Britain from 1850 to the Mid-1930s
- 15 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Britain, 1935–1950
- 16 The Geography and Politics of Maternal Care in the USA: Introduction
- 17 Home Deliveries and the General Practitioner
- 18 The American Midwife
- 19 The American Lying-in Hospital, 1850–1910
- 20 Attitudes to Childbirth and the Problem of Pain
- 21 The Orgy of Interference
- 22 Maternal Mortality in the USA
- 23 Europe: Introduction
- 24 European Midwives
- 25 European Lying-in Hospitals and Obstetricians
- 26 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Selected European Countries
- 27 Australia and New Zealand
- 28 Maternal and Infant Mortality
- Appendix 1 Hidden Maternal Deaths
- Appendix 2 England and Wales: The Classification of Maternal Deaths
- Appendix 3 Reports on Maternal Mortality in the USA
- appendix 4 Numbers of Births and Statistical Significance
- Appendix 5 The Problem of Streptococcal Virulence
- Appendix 6 Tables
- Select Bibliography
- Index
