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Paper, 'Calculations as to the number of accidents or deaths in parturition' by Robert Bland

Reference number: L&P/7/202

Date: 26 March 1781

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some calculations of the number of accidents or deaths which happen in consequence of parturition; and of the proportion of male to female children, as well as of twins, monstrous productions, and children that are dead-born; taken from the midwifery report of the Westminster General Dispensary: with an attempt to ascertain the chance of life at different periods, from infancy to twenty-six years of age; and likewise the proportion of natives to the rest of the inhabitants of London'

Read 10 May 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/202
Earliest possible date
26 March 1781
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
30 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Calculations as to the number of accidents or deaths in parturition' by Robert Bland, 26 March 1781, L&P/7/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_202/paper-calculations-as-to-the-number-of-accidents-or-deaths-in-parturition-by-robert-bland, accessed on 19 September 2024

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