Yearly Patient Mortality Rates At The Dublin Maternity Hospital 1784-1849
Semmelweis compared mortalilty rates in Vienna with maternity institutions in the United Kingdom where mortality rates were lower. He wished to show that childbed fever was related to pathological anatomy. His choice, Dublin Maternity Hospital, was like the Viennese hospital, a large teaching institution for physicians.
He argued that as a rule German and French maternity hospitals are associated with large general hospitals. Therefore their students occupy themselves in morgues, and in medical and surgical wards, as well as in maternity wards. In this way they become carriers of the decaying matter responsible for childbed fever.
Contrary hereto, maternity hospitals in the United Kingdom were independent institutions; removed from general hospitals. The students are forced to concern themselves exclusively with obstetrics, they do not carry out pathological autopsies.
Year | Births | Deaths | Rate (%) |
1784 | 1261 | 11 | 0.9 |
1785 | 1292 | 8 | 0.6 |
1786 | 1351 | 8 | 0.6 |
1787 | 1347 | 10 | 0.7 |
1788 | 1469 | 23 | 1.6 |
1789 | 1435 | 25 | 1.7 |
1790 | 1546 | 12 | 0.8 |
1791 | 1602 | 25 | 1.6 |
1792 | 1631 | 10 | 0.6 |
1793 | 1747 | 19 | 1.1 |
1794 | 1543 | 20 | 1.3 |
1795 | 1503 | 7 | 0.5 |
1796 | 1621 | 10 | 0.6 |
1797 | 1712 | 13 | 0.8 |
1798 | 1604 | 8 | 0.5 |
1799 | 1537 | 10 | 0.7 |
1800 | 1837 | 18 | 1 |
1801 | 1725 | 30 | 1.7 |
1802 | 1985 | 26 | 1.3 |
1803 | 2028 | 44 | 2.2 |
1804 | 1915 | 16 | 0.8 |
1805 | 2220 | 12 | 0.5 |
1806 | 2406 | 23 | 1 |
1807 | 2511 | 12 | 0.5 |
1808 | 2665 | 13 | 0.5 |
1809 | 2889 | 21 | 0.7 |
1810 | 2854 | 29 | 1 |
1811 | 2561 | 24 | 0.9 |
1812 | 2676 | 43 | 1.6 |
1813 | 2484 | 62 | 2.5 |
1814 | 2508 | 25 | 1 |
1815 | 3075 | 17 | 0.6 |
1816 | 3314 | 18 | 0.5 |
1817 | 3473 | 32 | 0.9 |
1818 | 3539 | 56 | 1.6 |
1819 | 3197 | 94 | 2.9 |
1820 | 2458 | 70 | 2.8 |
1821 | 2849 | 22 | 0.8 |
1822 | 2675 | 12 | 0.4 |
1823 | 2584 | 59 | 2.3 |
1824 | 2446 | 20 | 0.8 |
1825 | 2740 | 26 | 0.9 |
1826 | 2440 | 81 | 3.3 |
1827 | 2550 | 33 | 1.3 |
1828 | 2856 | 43 | 1.5 |
1829 | 2141 | 34 | 1.6 |
1830 | 2288 | 12 | 0.5 |
1831 | 2176 | 12 | 0.6 |
1832 | 2242 | 12 | 0.5 |
1833 | 2138 | 12 | 0.6 |
1834 | 2024 | 34 | 1.7 |
1835 | 1902 | 34 | 1.8 |
1836 | 1810 | 36 | 2 |
1837 | 1833 | 24 | 1.3 |
1838 | 2126 | 45 | 2.1 |
1839 | 1951 | 25 | 1.3 |
1840 | 1521 | 26 | 1.7 |
1841 | 2003 | 23 | 1.1 |
1842 | 2171 | 21 | 1 |
1843 | 2210 | 22 | 1 |
1844 | 2288 | 14 | 0.6 |
1845 | 1411 | 35 | 2.5 |
1846 | 2025 | 17 | 0.8 |
1847 | 1703 | 47 | 2.8 |
1848 | 1816 | 35 | 1.9 |
1849 | 2063 | 38 | 1.8 |
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