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The General Lying-In Hospital was an initiative of Dr John Leake, a physician, and the site chosen was on the north side of Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, then on the outskirts of London. Its foundation stone was laid in August 1765 and the facility opened as the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital in April 1767.
The impetus for the creation of a dedicated maternity hospital was dissatisfaction on the part of the governors of the Middlesex Hospital with its maternity facilities. A new hospital with 20 beds was established in 1749 in Brownlow Street, Long Acre, Holborn, under the presidency of the 2nd Duke of Portland, and initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women.
When lying-in was a more common term, it was used in the names of several maternity hospitals, for example the General Lying-In Hospital in London. Until the 1970s, standard NHS postpartum care involved 10 days in hospital, with the newborns taken to the nursery overnight, ensuring the mothers were well rested by the time they returned home. [5]
This hospital was called the General Lying-in Hospital, and it was the first of its kind in Britain. In 1752 the hospital relocated from Jermyn Street to Marylebone Road and became one of the first teaching institutions. [4] The hospital appears to have arisen out of the 1739 foundation, but with varying degrees of recognition, developing over ...
On 27 November 1862 Grailey Hewitt (Physician British Lying In Hospital) writes to a Mr. Bowman and asks for assistance in starting a training scheme for monthly nurses at the British Lying In Hospital. [7] In 1889 an editorial article appears in The Nursing Record alluding to doctors encouraging women in poor circumstances to train as monthly ...
Ann Newby was assistant matron of the City of London Lying-In Hospital from 1769 and was made matron of the hospital on 3 November 1773, when the hospital received its license. [1] Newby was one of the officers elected for life to the board of the hospital. She was the only woman. [1]
The Society for the Lying-In Hospital was a maternity hospital situated at 305 Second Avenue between East 17th and 18th Streets in the Stuyvesant Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Now known as Rutherford Place, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Charles White FRS (4 October 1728 – 20 February 1813) was an English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and the St Mary's Hospital for Lying in Women in 1790. White made contributions in the fields of orthopaedics, surgery, and obstetrics.