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BookCat · 01-09-2018, 10:36 AM

pdurrant: yes, they died from puerpural fever. Doctors would attend to women straight after examining cadavers, with no washing in between. It was probably safer to give birth at home. I would imagine most births were home births until the 1960s. My mother had all her children at home, I was born in the late '50s, at home.

01-09-2018, 10:36 AM	#3
BookCat C L J Posts: 2,911 Karma: 21115458 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham UK Device: Sony e-reader 505, Kindle PW2, Kindle PW3, Kobo Libra2	pdurrant: yes, they died from puerpural fever. Doctors would attend to women straight after examining cadavers, with no washing in between. It was probably safer to give birth at home. I would imagine most births were home births until the 1960s. My mother had all her children at home, I was born in the late '50s, at home.