INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND MICROBES, ETC. 195 



Prof. I. Giglioli 1 gives the following statistics 

 concerning the patients in the Maternity Hospital 

 at Copenhagen between the years 1850 and 1874 

 (the antiseptic method being introduced in the year 

 1870): 



From 1850 to 1864 the mortality was 41'6 per 1000. 

 1865 1870 19-6 



1870 ,,1874 11-4 



And in Naples the mortality during the years 

 1875-78 was 0'12 per 1000 patients. 



Dr. W. 0. Priestley gives in his paper, which 

 was read before the Congress of Hygiene, 2 an inter- 

 esting table showing the maternal deaths in six 

 lying-in hospitals since the introduction of antiseptic 

 and aseptic methods. With these he contrasted 

 the figures of M. Le Fort before the era of anti- 

 septics : 



MORTALITY IN MATERNITY HOSPITALS FROM ALL 



CAUSES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE 



(LE FORT). 



Before the introduction of Antiseptics. 



Deliveries. Deaths. Per 1000. 



Total, . 888,312 30,394 34'21 



1 Fermenti e Microbi, p. 157. 



2 Held in London during September 1891. 



