The laws, orders, and regulations of the British Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of lying-in married women / collected together, revised, enlarged, and digested under proper heads, by the Weekly Committee, in pursuance of an order of the Quarterly General Court.

  • Lying-In Hospital for Married Women (London, England)
Date:
1781
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Credit: The laws, orders, and regulations of the British Lying-in Hospital, for the reception of lying-in married women / collected together, revised, enlarged, and digested under proper heads, by the Weekly Committee, in pursuance of an order of the Quarterly General Court. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lying-in Wards. The Ladies Governors and Subfcribers to this Charity may at any Time vifit the Lying-in Wards, and fuch their Vifitation will be efteemed as a Favour done to the Charity. General Laws. V WUf , ■ ,, n ' / ,fk - St *1 J . I That no Nurfes, or Servants of the Hofpital, or any other Perfon belonging or any ways relating to it, prefume at any Time to take of any tradefman. Patient, Servant, Stranger, or others, any Fee, Reward, or Gratification of any Kind, diredly or indiredtly, for any Service done or to be done on Account of the Hofpital, on Pain of immediately being difcharged. That an Infcription in large Letters be placed up in each Ward, to caution the Patients againft offer- ing, and to deter the Nurfes and Servants againft receiving, any Gratuity whatfoever from the Patients or their Friends. That, if any of the Nurfes, Servants, or other Perfons in the Houfe, fhall convey or carry out of the Houfe any Provifions, or other Things belonging to it, they fhall be immediately difcharged; and that neither they, nor any other Officer or Servant * ' \ who
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