page_title: Early postnatal hospital discharge
section_title: Historical overview
hierarchical_section_title: Early postnatal hospital discharge / Historical overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: guidebookofbosto1906burr (find matches) Title: A guide-book of Boston for physicians Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Burrage, Walter L. (Walter Lincoln), 1860-1935, ed Subjects: Publisher: Boston&#160;: The Merrymount Press Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ight-seer. Returning to Mc-Lean Street, on theleft stands the Boston Lying-in Hospital. This was organizedin 1832 for the care of poor and deserving women duringconfinement. After several changes in location and mode ofadministration, the trustees established the institution in itspresent quarters. In 1890 the hospital was enlarged to the pro-portions in which we find it by the purchase of adjoininghouses, and about sixty patients can now be accommodated. In1881 an out-patient department was established with a branchin the South End, now at No. 174 Harrison Avenue, at the footof Bennet Street. In this department women are confined attheir homes. Students from the third and fourth year classesat the Harvard Medical School do this work, under experiencedsupervision, and in this way get the training in obstetrics re-quired for their degree. In 1889 the hospital opened a trainingschool for nurses. The hospital treats annually about seven hun-dred in-patients and two thousand out-patients. Text Appearing After Image: BOSTON LYING-IN HOSPITAL 88 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION A few doors beyond, at No. 30, is the Ckanning Home. Thiswas established in May, 1857, by Miss Harriet Ryan, the lateMrs. John Albee, the present building being opened May 1,1870. This is not a hospital in the ordinary sense of the word,but a home for incurables. The institution has accommodationsfor fourteen inmates, women and girls only being admitted. Leaving the Channing Home and walking on to BlossomStreet, one finds himself at the main entrance of the Massa-chusetts General Hospital. Before inspecting this hospital, thevisitor may care to stop for a moment at the Infants Hos-pital, of which the full name is the Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr.,Memorial Hospital for Infants. This was incorporated in 1881,and receives as in-patients children up to two years of ageonly. In the out-patient department, however, children up totwelve years of age are treated. Contagious diseases, includ-ing syphilis, are not admitted. There are twenty-fo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Early postnatal hospital discharge generally refers to the postpartum hospital discharge of the mother and newborn within 48 hours. The duration of what is considered “early discharge” varies between countries from 12 to 72 hours due to the differences in average duration of hospital stay. The World Health Organisation recommends healthy mothers and newborns following an uncomplicated vaginal delivery at a health facility to stay and receive care at the facility for at least 24 hours after delivery. This recommendation is based on findings which suggest that the first 24 hours after giving birth poses the greatest risks for both the mother and newborn.
  The length of postnatal hospital stay has changed internationally since the 19th century when giving birth at hospitals were first introduced. Following World War II, the length of postnatal hospital discharge has been declining, leading to global increases in early postnatal hospital discharge.
  Conclusions regarding the effects of early postnatal hospital discharge on mothers and newborns remain unclear.
caption: Photograph of the Boston Lying-In Hospital in the United States.[19]
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