[Mothers rooming-in in a department of pediatrics (author's transl)].

The socio-economic and medical characteristics of a population of 100 children hospitalized in a "mother and child" section of a general pediatric department were studied in order to point out some objective data. This population appears socio-economically privileged. The majority of them are single children, with ages ranging from 0 to 10 years and with many babies under 6 months. There are as many working mothers in this group as in the average population of the department. Types of diseases are varied as the children were not chosen on medical criteria. Lastly, the length of the stay in hospital becomes noticeably shorter.