In 1862 the Nightingale Fund opened midwifery wards at King’s College Hospital to train nurses, and deaths from puerperal fever soon forced their closure. Nightingale responded by gathering mortality figures from lying-in hospitals across England and Europe, comparing them with home births, and setting out plans for safer maternity wards.
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