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AYIT Part 3: Maternal Mortality in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian period

Mar 14, 2022 · 14 min read · 1800s 1889 1890 Edward Wadswrth William Farr Alexander Gordon Oliver Wendell-Holmes Ignaz Semmelweis Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Janet Campbell Leonard Findlay Church of England Kings College Lying-in Maternal Mortality Puerperal Fever haemorrhage Toxaemia Rickets Rotunda Ireland Dublin Herford Glasgow Scotland Pontypridd Wales Rhonda Valley Victorian Era Edwardian Era Hygeine Medical Care Nutrition Living Conditions ·
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Figure 1. Victorian Cabinet Memoriam Card, Private collection © RSJS Introduction In part 2, we looked at the state of midwifery in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, a practice that was being hamstrung by both the tripartite of the medical profession and by contemporary attitudes towards women. In this …

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Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

Jan 28, 2022 · 14 min read · CAB 37/134/22 1914 rush-to-the-colours FWW recruitment Cardiff Scotland August 1914 BEF Statistics of the Military Effort Peter Simkins Regular Army Territorial Army Derek R Young Welsh Regiment Patrick Watt Ian Beckett Kitchener Keith Simpson Adrian Gregory Catriona Pennell ·
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I am currently teaching myself R and R Studio and, as someone who has spent many an hour typing up tables from old documents, I am planning to put my datasets into a GitHub repository along with the code for anyone who might find them useful. I am not quite at that stage yet but wanted to post this example as it came …

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