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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.
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]
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. ("Lying-in" is an archaic term for childbirth, referring to the long bedrest prescribed for new mothers in their postpartum confinement.)
The hospital strictly dates its foundation to 1739 when Sir Richard Manningham established a maternity hospital of lying-in beds in a 17-room house on Jermyn Street. [3] This hospital was called the General Lying-in Hospital, and it was the first of its kind in Britain.
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 ...
A mother in Florence lying-in, from a painted desco da parto or birth tray of c. 1410. As women tend to the child, expensively dressed female guests are already arriving. The term used in English, now old-fashioned or archaic, was once used to name maternity hospitals, for example the General Lying-In Hospital in London.
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Banstead Hospital; Battersea General Hospital; Beckenham Hospital; Belgrave Hospital for Children; Beltwood House; Bethnal Green Hospital; Bexley Hospital; Bexley Hospital, Bexleyheath; British Hospital for Mothers and Babies; British Lying-In Hospital; Broderip Ward; Bromley Hospital; Brook General Hospital