35S Dr. bland^s Midwifery Reports 
kfome places they were not perfe&ly intelligible, without fome 
explanation, as for 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 illuftrate the fubjedh 
As my firft view was to find the proportion of difficult 
labours, and of the accidents or deaths that happen in confe- 
quence of child-birth, I £hall begin, with the following table. 
Of 1897 women delivered under the care of the Dilpenfary, 
63 or 1 in 30 had unnatural labours : in 
18 of thefe, or 1 in 105, the children prefented by 
their feet ; in 
36 or 1 in 52, the breech prefented ; in 
8 the arms prefented 1 and in 
1 the funis* 
} 
or 1 in 2 1 o*. 
63 
17 
80" 
women, or 1 in nr* had laborious labours r in 
+8 of thefe, or 1 in 236, the heads of the children were 
leffened ; in 
4 a Angle blade of a forceps was ufed ; 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. 
*7 
80 
I 
* In all thefe nine cafes the children were turned. 
f Two of thefe women have fince been delivered of fulLfized healthy children. 
A third bore a very fmall and weakly child, who died in two or three days. A 
fourth 
