Tragedy of Childbed Fever, The Variance and Expected Outcomes

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Tragedy of Childbed Fever, The Variance and Expected OutcomesChildbed fever was by the far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth up to the Second World War throughout Britain and Europe. Otherwise known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and caused thousands of miserable and agonising deaths every year. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the eighteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth