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in fome places they were not perfeftly intelligible, without forne 
explanation, as fox inftance in the table of the chance of life 
at different periods, I have ventured to add fuch occafional 
remarks as I think will tend to illuffrate the fubjefh 
As my firff view was to find the proportion of . difficult 
labours, and of the accidents or deaths that happen in confe- 
quence of child-birth, I fhall begin with the following table.. 
Of 1897 women delivered under the care of the Difpenfary,, 
6.3 or 1 in 30 had unnatural labours : in 
x8 of thefe, or 1 in 105.,, the children prefented by 
their feet ; in 
36 or 1 in 52, the breech prefented I in 
8 the arms prefented ; and in 1 ^ 
. . . yg * 9 or 1 in 21m. 
1 the rums.. J 
63 
17 women, or 1 in in, had laborious labours : in 
of thefe, or 1 in 236,. the heads of the children were 
lefiened ; in 
4 a fingle blade of a forceps was nfed;; and in the 
remaining; 
5 in which the faces of the children were turned to the 
pubes, the delivery was at length accomplilhed by 
the pains. 
Bo 17 
So. 
* In all thefe nine cafes the children were turned. 
f Two of thefe women have fince been delivered of full-ilzed healthy children* 
& third bore a very fihall and weakly child,, who died in two or three days. A 
fourth 
