In the annual report of the General Lying-in Hospital for 1883 the medical report, signed by Dr. (now Sir John) Williams and Dr. Champneys, says that 342 women were confined, of whom 3 died (1 in 114), 2 from septicasmia, quite independent of one another, "a percentage which testifies to the healthy condition of the hospital." This was during the time that antiseptics were employed there, but, you will note, before the corrosive sublimate was commenced, and the committee add in presenting this medical report to the governors: " The committee beg to tender their congratulations to the eminent I surgeom to the hospital, Sir Joseph Lister, Bart., to whom this and other institutions are so much indebted for the :Ja.tisfactGry medical results obtained through the system with which his name is associated." Sir Williem Priestley con luded his pl.ppr read before the Obstetrical Society of London in July, 1885, enticed "Notes of a Visit to some of the Lying in Hosprtals in the North of Enrope; and particularly on the Advantages of the Antiseptic
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