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years ago, there being then no midwife living in the parish of Aldenham, I selected a poor widow, who had three children supported by the parish, and sent her up, for instruction, to the Lying-in Hospital, in Store-street, near Tottenham-Court Road; where Dr. Osborn permitted her to continue for three months, at a very small expence. Tho without any preparatory education, she returned so well instructed, as to exercise her calling in the parish ever since, without a single accident, or ever having occasion to call in medical assistance. She has been enabled thereby