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Again, 17 women, or 1 in 111, had laborious labours: in 8 of these, or I 

 in 236, the heads of the children were lessened ; in 4 a single blade of a forceps 

 was used , and in the remaining 5, in which the faces of the children were 

 turned to the pubes, the delivery was at length accomplished by the pains. 



3dly. 1 woman had convulsions about the 7th month of her pregnancy, and 

 was delivered a month after of a dead child, and recovered. 1 woman had con- 

 vulsions during labour; brought forth a live child, and recovered: 9 women, or 

 1 in 210, had uterine haemorrhage before and during labour. Of these 1 died 

 undelivered; 1 died a few hours, and 1 ten days, after delivery, and 6 recovered. 



4thly. 5 women had the puerperal fever, of whom 4 died. In one of these 

 the placenta was undelivered, and continued so to her death: 2 women were 

 seized with mania, but recovered in about 3 months. In 1 woman a suppuration 

 took place, soon after labour, from the vagina into the bladder and rectum. 

 This patient recovered, but the urine and stools continue to pass through the 

 wounds. Of 1 woman the perinaeum was lacerated to the sphincter ani. A 

 suture was attempted, but without effect; she recovered, but is troubled with 

 prolapsus uteri: 5 had large and painful swellings of the legs and thighs, but 

 recovered. 



105 therefore of the?e, or 1 in 18, had preternatural or laborious births, or 

 suffered in consequence of labour. Of this number of cases, 43, or 1 in 44, 

 were attended with particular difficulty or danger; and ? only, or 1 in 270, died. 

 The remaining 62 wefe delivered and recovered with little more than the common 

 assistance: and 1792 had natural labours, not attended with any particular 

 accidents. 



The proportion of male to female children, of the number of twins, and of 

 the children that were deficient or monstrous, and of those that were dead-born, 

 is as follows: 



I897 women were delivered of 1923 children; 972 boys, and 951 girls, or as 

 46 boys to 45 girls. — 23 of the women, or 1 in 80, were delivered of twins, 1(3 

 of whom were boys and 30 girls, — 1 woman was delivered of 3 girls. Of the 

 twins and triplets therefore, the males were only half the number of the females. 

 — 8 of the children, or 1 in 241, were deficient or monstrous. Of these, 1 

 was web-fingered; 1 had a hare-lip; 1 had a dropsical head and distorted spine; 

 1 a dropsical head ; in 1 a part of the palate, and in 2 a considerable portion of 

 the cranium was wanting; one of these lived an hour after it was born; and 1 

 had 2 heads;* 1 woman was delivered of a monstrous twin.-f- — 84 of the children, 



* It had 2 heads and necks, 4 hands and arms, 2 spines, uniting at the sacrum, and terminating 

 in one pelvis, whence the lower extremities proceeded single ; there was one navel-string, and one 

 male organ of generation. On opening the body there were found, 2 thoracic cavities, tire right 

 moie complete than the left; the heart also, and the lungs on the right side, were more perfect than 



